Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Edwin O'Connor
Charting Feb 26, 1956 → Apr 9, 1967 · 107 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
20 crowns
19561967Longest reign 20 weeks (Mar–Aug 1956) · First crown Mar 1956
- Peak Power
- 13.44%
- week of Aug 5, 1956
- Career Power
- 934
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 20
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 579
- February 1956 – February 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 581
- March 1952 – February 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 55
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 107
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Mar 25, 1956
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jul 1961 · Jan 1967, after 5 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 books · 934 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Last Hurrah | #1 | 53 | 581.1 | ||
| The Edge of Sadness | #3 | 28 | 193.8 | ||
| All in the Family | #5 | 25 | 154.5 | ||
| I Was Dancing | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Edwin O'Connor's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1956 to February 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Edwin O'Connor579
- 2Patrick Dennis394
- 3William Brinkley391
- 4MacKinlay Kantor336
- 5Grace Metalious262
- 6Simone de Beauvoir212
- 7John O'Hara194
- 8Pearl S. Buck186
- 9A. J. Cronin173
- 10Francoise Sagan166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.