Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Edwin Gilbert
Charting Feb 19, 1956 → Jun 28, 1959 · 41 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.53%
- week of Sep 1, 1957
- Career Power
- 202
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 166
- December 1956 – November 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 202
- June 1954 – June 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 8
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 41
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Aug 11, 1957
- 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
3 books · 202 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Spoon | #2 | 26 | 166.0 | ||
| The Hourglass | #11 | 9 | 22.1 | ||
| Native Stone | #13 | 6 | 13.5 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Edwin Gilbert's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1956 to November 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious675
- 2Meyer Levin455
- 3Daphne Du Maurier346
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes272
- 5Gerald Green203
- 6Richard Powell180
- 7William Brinkley179
- 8Nevil Shute166
- 9Edwin Gilbert166
- 10James Gould Cozzens160
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.