Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Edward Streeter
Charting Jun 5, 1949 → Jul 8, 1962 · 93 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 9.09%
- week of Sep 11, 1949
- Career Power
- 525
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 254
- January 1949 – January 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 254
- January 1945 – January 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 18
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 93
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jul 24, 1949
- Comebacks
- 1
- Dec 1961, after 12 quiet years
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
4 books · 525 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Father of the Bride | #2 | 30 | 254.2 | ||
| Chairman of the Bored | #6 | 39 | 183.2 | ||
| Mr. Hobbs' Vacation | #10 | 17 | 57.3 | ||
| Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter | #7 | 7 | 30.2 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Edward Streeter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1949 to January 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas493
- 2John P. Marquand400
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes291
- 4Edward Streeter254
- 5Mika Waltari239
- 6John O'Hara235
- 7Taylor Caldwell193
- 8Norman Mailer175
- 9Frank Yerby160
- 10Irwin Shaw156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.