Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Glendon Swarthout
Charting Mar 23, 1958 → Mar 13, 1960 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.57%
- week of Mar 13, 1960
- Career Power
- 12
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 6
- May 1957 – May 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 12
- March 1955 – March 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Feb 28, 1960
- 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 · 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| They Came to Cordura | #15 | 3 | 6.0 | ||
| Where the Boys Are | #12 | 2 | 5.9 |
At their peak
1957 in books →Glendon Swarthout's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1957 to May 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Gould Cozzens459
- 2Grace Metalious398
- 3Nevil Shute249
- 4Meyer Levin234
- 5Thomas B. Costain227
- 6Daphne Du Maurier221
- 7Robert Traver191
- 8Richard Mason179
- 9Ayn Rand171
- 10Edwin Gilbert166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.