Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gretchen Finletter
Charting May 22, 1955 → Sep 18, 1955 · 18 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.32%
- week of Aug 28, 1955
- Career Power
- 84
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 84
- September 1954 – September 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 84
- September 1950 – September 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 18
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Jul 17, 1955
- 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 · 84 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 Dinner Party | #6 | 18 | 83.7 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Gretchen Finletter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1954 to September 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mac Hyman432
- 2Irving Stone405
- 3Hamilton Basso395
- 4Francoise Sagan338
- 5Morton Thompson259
- 6John Phillips Marquand256
- 7Anya Seton255
- 8Robert Ruark238
- 9Patrick Dennis217
- 10Daphne Du Maurier173
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.