Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gerald Green
Charting Feb 24, 1957 → Jun 4, 1961 · 41 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.41%
- week of Jul 21, 1957
- Career Power
- 231
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 203
- September 1956 – September 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 231
- June 1956 – June 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 11
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 41
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Jun 30, 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
3 books · 231 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 Last Angry Man | #4 | 31 | 202.6 | ||
| The Lotus Eaters | #9 | 9 | 26.7 | ||
| The Heartless Light | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Gerald Green's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1956 to September 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious683
- 2Meyer Levin434
- 3Daphne Du Maurier344
- 4William Brinkley308
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes265
- 6Patrick Dennis219
- 7Gerald Green203
- 8Richard Powell180
- 9Edwin O'Connor166
- 10Nicholas Monsarrat156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.