Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Edward L. Beach
Charting Apr 24, 1955 → Aug 28, 1955 · 19 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.69%
- week of Jul 10, 1955
- Career Power
- 98
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 98
- September 1954 – August 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 98
- September 1950 – August 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 19
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of May 8, 1955
- 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 · 98 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run Silent, Run Deep | #6 | 19 | 97.8 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Edward L. Beach's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1954 to August 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Irving Stone424
- 2Mac Hyman419
- 3Hamilton Basso395
- 4Francoise Sagan303
- 5Morton Thompson282
- 6John Phillips Marquand256
- 7Anya Seton255
- 8Daphne Du Maurier217
- 9Robert Ruark203
- 10Patrick Dennis173
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.