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Guy Endore

Charting Apr 10, 1933Feb 17, 1957 · 22 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    19331957

    First crown Apr 1933

Peak Power
4.98%
week of Jan 20, 1957
Career Power
153
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
100
February 1956 – February 1957
Peak Five Years
100
February 1952 – February 1957
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Apr 17, 1933
Comebacks
1
Nov 1956, after 23 quiet years

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 · 153 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
King of Paris#61899.9
The Werewolf of Paris#1452.7

At their peak

1956 in books

Guy Endore's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1956 to February 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Edwin O'Connor579
  2. 2Patrick Dennis394
  3. 3William Brinkley391
  4. 4MacKinlay Kantor336
  5. 5Grace Metalious262
  6. 6Simone de Beauvoir212
  7. 7John O'Hara194
  8. 8Pearl S. Buck186
  9. 9A. J. Cronin173
  10. 10Francoise Sagan166

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.