Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Elaine Dundy
Charting Aug 17, 1958 → Sep 21, 1958 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.58%
- week of Sep 21, 1958
- Career Power
- 19
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 19
- September 1957 – September 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 19
- September 1953 – September 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Aug 24, 1958
- 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 · 19 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 Dud Avocado | #11 | 6 | 18.9 |
At their peak
1957 in books →Elaine Dundy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1957 to September 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Traver482
- 2James Gould Cozzens451
- 3Anya Seton292
- 4Edna Ferber258
- 5Thomas B. Costain227
- 6Nevil Shute187
- 7Ayn Rand171
- 8Helen MacInnes154
- 9Myron S. Kaufmann141
- 10Jerome Weidman140
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.