Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Frank Norris
Charting Jan 27, 1957 → Mar 17, 1957 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.76%
- week of Mar 17, 1957
- Career Power
- 26
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 26
- March 1956 – March 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 26
- March 1952 – March 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Jan 27, 1957
- 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 · 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tower in the West | #9 | 8 | 25.6 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Frank Norris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1956 to March 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Edwin O'Connor543
- 2William Brinkley417
- 3Patrick Dennis374
- 4Grace Metalious320
- 5MacKinlay Kantor278
- 6Simone de Beauvoir212
- 7Pearl S. Buck186
- 8A. J. Cronin173
- 9Francoise Sagan166
- 10Meyer Levin159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.