Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Frances Gray Patton
Charting Nov 28, 1954 → Apr 3, 1955 · 19 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.53%
- week of Feb 6, 1955
- Career Power
- 74
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 74
- April 1954 – April 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 74
- April 1950 – April 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 19
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Jan 23, 1955
- 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 · 74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good Morning, Miss Dove | #7 | 19 | 74.1 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Frances Gray Patton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1954 to April 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson535
- 2Irving Stone381
- 3Daphne Du Maurier344
- 4Hamilton Basso286
- 5Anya Seton236
- 6Mac Hyman227
- 7Taylor Caldwell210
- 8Norah Lofts208
- 9John Steinbeck207
- 10Frances Parkinson Keyes189
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.