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Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

F.W. Kenyon

Charting Jun 21, 1953Oct 4, 1953 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.46%
week of Sep 6, 1953
Career Power
78
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
78
October 1952 – October 1953
Peak Five Years
78
October 1948 – October 1953
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Jul 19, 1953
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 · 78 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Emperor's Lady#61577.9

At their peak

1952 in books

F.W. Kenyon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1952 to October 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain564
  2. 2Annemarie Selinko494
  3. 3John Steinbeck394
  4. 4Herman Wouk294
  5. 5Frances Parkinson Keyes270
  6. 6Edna Ferber235
  7. 7Leon Uris234
  8. 8Francis Van Wyck Mason187
  9. 9Ernest K. Gann177
  10. 10Daphne Du Maurier148

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.