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E.B. White

Charting Nov 9, 1952Dec 28, 1952 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.54%
week of Dec 28, 1952
Career Power
7
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
7
January 1952 – December 1952
Peak Five Years
7
January 1948 – December 1952
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Nov 9, 1952
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 · 7 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.

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At their peak

1952 in books

E.B. White's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1952 to December 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Herman Wouk671
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier375
  3. 3Nicholas Monsarrat347
  4. 4Howard Spring288
  5. 5Agnes Sligh Turnbull287
  6. 6Thomas B. Costain273
  7. 7John Steinbeck174
  8. 8Barnaby Conrad158
  9. 9Irving Stone150
  10. 10Frank Yerby138

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.