Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ernest Gann
Charting Feb 10, 1957 → Apr 28, 1957 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.44%
- week of Apr 28, 1957
- Career Power
- 42
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 42
- May 1956 – April 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 42
- May 1952 – April 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Feb 17, 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
1 book · 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twilight for the Gods | #8 | 11 | 42.0 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Ernest Gann's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1956 to April 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Edwin O'Connor456
- 2William Brinkley429
- 3Grace Metalious396
- 4Patrick Dennis340
- 5Meyer Levin223
- 6Simone de Beauvoir212
- 7MacKinlay Kantor210
- 8A. J. Cronin173
- 9Pearl S. Buck168
- 10Francoise Sagan166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.