Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Evan Hunter
Charting Jun 22, 1958 → Oct 1, 1961 · 31 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.22%
- week of Sep 14, 1958
- Career Power
- 127
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 74
- October 1957 – September 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 127
- September 1956 – October 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 31
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Jul 20, 1958
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1961
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 · 127 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strangers When We Meet | #7 | 15 | 74.4 | ||
| Mothers and Daughters | #9 | 16 | 52.9 |
At their peak
1957 in books →Evan Hunter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1957 to September 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Traver494
- 2James Gould Cozzens437
- 3Anya Seton294
- 4Edna Ferber262
- 5Thomas B. Costain227
- 6Nevil Shute174
- 7Ayn Rand171
- 8Helen MacInnes154
- 9Jerome Weidman150
- 10Myron S. Kaufmann138
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.