Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Charting Apr 19, 1959 → Apr 19, 1959 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.30%
- week of Apr 19, 1959
- Career Power
- 3
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 3
- April 1958 – April 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 3
- April 1954 – April 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Apr 19, 1959
- 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 · 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Pledge | #13 | 1 | 2.8 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Friedrich Duerrenmatt's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1958 to April 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Traver508
- 2Boris Pasternak376
- 3Vladimir Nabokov375
- 4Edna Ferber260
- 5Patrick Dennis256
- 6Anya Seton246
- 7Leon Uris237
- 8Jerome Weidman208
- 9John O'Hara160
- 10Mary Renault152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.