Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Eugene Burdick
Charting Jun 24, 1956 → Oct 4, 1964 · 139 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.43%
- week of Sep 6, 1959
- Career Power
- 587
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 258
- December 1958 – December 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 447
- May 1958 – June 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 139
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Jul 5, 1959
- Comebacks
- 3
- Dec 1958 · Dec 1962 · Aug 1964
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
4 books · 587 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 Ugly Americanwith William J. Lederer | #2 | 76 | 304.9 | ||
| Fail-Safewith Harvey Wheeler | #2 | 30 | 141.7 | ||
| The Ninth Wave | #8 | 20 | 74.3 | ||
| The 480 | #7 | 13 | 66.5 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Eugene Burdick's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1958 to December 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris661
- 2Boris Pasternak528
- 3Vladimir Nabokov342
- 4Taylor Caldwell324
- 5Eugene Burdick258
- 6William J. Lederer258
- 7D.H. Lawrence251
- 8Allen Drury223
- 9John O'Hara198
- 10Paul Gallico195
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.