Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Eugene Vale
Charting Sep 6, 1959 → Feb 14, 1960 · 22 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.37%
- week of Dec 27, 1959
- Career Power
- 81
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 81
- February 1959 – February 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 81
- February 1955 – February 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 22
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Oct 25, 1959
- 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 · 81 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 Thirteenth Apostle | #6 | 22 | 80.6 |
At their peak
1959 in books →Eugene Vale's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1959 to February 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris640
- 2Taylor Caldwell415
- 3Boris Pasternak397
- 4Allen Drury346
- 5D.H. Lawrence251
- 6Eugene Burdick246
- 7William J. Lederer246
- 8Vladimir Nabokov228
- 9Paul Gallico192
- 10James A. Michener147
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.