Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Grace Metalious
Charting Sep 30, 1956 → Jan 31, 1960 · 79 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
29 crowns
19561960Longest reign 17 weeks (Nov 1956 – Mar 1957) · First crown Nov 1956
- Peak Power
- 14.09%
- week of Sep 15, 1957
- Career Power
- 814
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 29
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 702
- October 1956 – October 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 814
- January 1955 – January 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 55
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 79
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Nov 25, 1956
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 books · 814 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peyton Place | #1 | 76 | 806.8 | ||
| Return to Peyton Place | #13 | 3 | 7.0 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Grace Metalious's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1956 to October 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious702
- 2Meyer Levin454
- 3Daphne Du Maurier346
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes272
- 5William Brinkley250
- 6Gerald Green203
- 7Patrick Dennis199
- 8Richard Powell180
- 9Edwin Gilbert157
- 10Nicholas Monsarrat156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.