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Dennis Murphy

Charting Apr 6, 1958Jun 29, 1958 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.39%
week of Jun 15, 1958
Career Power
66
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
66
July 1957 – June 1958
Peak Five Years
66
July 1953 – June 1958
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of May 11, 1958
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

1 book · 66 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
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At their peak

1957 in books

Dennis Murphy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1957 to June 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Gould Cozzens481
  2. 2Robert Traver307
  3. 3Grace Metalious295
  4. 4Nevil Shute249
  5. 5Thomas B. Costain227
  6. 6Anya Seton196
  7. 7Richard Mason179
  8. 8Ayn Rand171
  9. 9Meyer Levin147
  10. 10Myron S. Kaufmann141

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.