Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Francis Van Wyck Mason
Charting Feb 24, 1952 → Aug 30, 1953 · 30 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.34%
- week of Jun 14, 1953
- Career Power
- 197
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 187
- September 1952 – August 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 197
- September 1948 – August 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 30
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Apr 12, 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
2 books · 197 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Admiral | #3 | 26 | 186.6 | ||
| Himalayan Assignment | #12 | 4 | 10.4 |
At their peak
1952 in books →Francis Van Wyck Mason's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1952 to August 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain623
- 2Annemarie Selinko421
- 3John Steinbeck401
- 4Herman Wouk354
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes270
- 6Edna Ferber235
- 7Francis Van Wyck Mason187
- 8Leon Uris177
- 9Ernest Hemingway175
- 10Daphne Du Maurier174
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.