Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Elizabeth Gray Vining
Charting May 29, 1955 → Feb 2, 1964 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.13%
- week of Jul 10, 1955
- Career Power
- 19
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- July 1954 – July 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- July 1950 – July 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Feb 2, 1964
- 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
2 books · 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 Virginia Exiles | #13 | 6 | 14.6 | ||
| Take Heed of Loving Me | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Elizabeth Gray Vining's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1954 to July 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Irving Stone424
- 2Hamilton Basso386
- 3Mac Hyman364
- 4Morton Thompson342
- 5Daphne Du Maurier315
- 6Anya Seton255
- 7John Phillips Marquand221
- 8Francoise Sagan205
- 9John Steinbeck183
- 10Frances Parkinson Keyes168
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.