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Frances Parkinson Keyes

Charting Jun 6, 1938 → Sep 25, 1966 · 281 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 crowns
19381966
Longest reign 5 weeks (Jan–Feb 1951) · First crown Jan 1951

Peak Power: 11.94%; week of May 13, 1951
Career Power: 2,058; share-weeks
Crowns: 8; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 354; August 1950 – August 1951
Peak Five Years: 967; August 1948 – July 1953
Top-five weeks: 134; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 281; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Jan 14, 1951
Comebacks: 5; Dec 1945, after 7 quiet years · Nov 1947 · Jan 1951 · Jan 1953 · Mar 1957

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

15 books · 2,058 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
Joy Street	#1January 1951	34	December 1950 – August 1951	354.0	354.0
Dinner at Antoine's	#2January 1949	37	December 1948 – August 1949	343.8	343.8
Blue Camellia	#3April 1957	37	February 1957 – October 1957	272.1	272.1
Steamboat Gothic	#3January 1953	34	November 1952 – July 1953	269.6	269.6
Came a Cavalier	#3December 1947	29	November 1947 – June 1948	218.5	218.5
The Royal Box	#3July 1954	26	June 1954 – December 1954	188.6	188.6
The River Road	#3January 1946	21	December 1945 – May 1946	139.5	139.5
I, the King	#6July 1966	12	June 1966 – September 1966	66.1	66.1
Victorine	#7January 1959	17	November 1958 – March 1959	65.1	65.1
The Chess Players	#7February 1961	14	January 1961 – April 1961	51.4	51.4
Station Wagon in Spain	#9November 1959	10	October 1959 – December 1959	32.4	32.4
Parts Unknown	#4June 1938	2	June 1938 – June 1938	16.9	16.9
Madame Castel's Lodger	#7February 1963	4	January 1963 – February 1963	16.3	16.3
The Explorer	#6February 1965	3	January 1965 – February 1965	15.6	15.6
Fielding's Folly	#5November 1940	1	November 1940	8.3	8.3

At their peak

1950 in books →

Frances Parkinson Keyes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1950 to August 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.