Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
F.W. Kenyon
Charting Jun 21, 1953 → Oct 4, 1953 · 15 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Emperor's Lady | #6 | 15 | 77.9 |
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:
- 1Thomas B. Costain564
- 2Annemarie Selinko494
- 3John Steinbeck394
- 4Herman Wouk294
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes270
- 6Edna Ferber235
- 7Leon Uris234
- 8Francis Van Wyck Mason187
- 9Ernest K. Gann177
- 10Daphne Du Maurier148
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.