Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Eleanor Palffy
Charting Dec 23, 1951 → Jan 20, 1952 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.92%
- week of Jan 20, 1952
- Career Power
- 10
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 10
- January 1951 – January 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 10
- February 1947 – January 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Dec 23, 1951
- 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 · 10 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 Lady and the Painter | #15 | 5 | 10.4 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Eleanor Palffy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1951 to January 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk535
- 2James Jones525
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes276
- 4Nicholas Monsarrat270
- 5James A. Michener223
- 6Budd Schulberg220
- 7J.D. Salinger183
- 8F. Van Wyck Mason164
- 9John Marquand150
- 10Frank Yerby149
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.