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Frank O'Conner

Charting Sep 7, 1952 → Oct 26, 1952 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.83%
week of Sep 28, 1952
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
11
November 1951 – October 1952
Peak Five Years
11
November 1947 – October 1952
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Sep 7, 1952
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 · 11 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Stories of Frank O'Conner#13510.9

At their peak

1951 in books →

Frank O'Conner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1951 to October 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Herman Wouk721
  2. 2Nicholas Monsarrat461
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier375
  4. 4Agnes Sligh Turnbull272
  5. 5Howard Spring236
  6. 6Irving Stone218
  7. 7John Marquand199
  8. 8Graham Greene187
  9. 9Thomas B. Costain164
  10. 10Sholem Asch148

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.