Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gwen Bristow
Charting May 30, 1938 → Jan 17, 1971 · 99 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 9.78%
- week of Sep 17, 1950
- Career Power
- 674
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 353
- January 1950 – January 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 353
- January 1946 – January 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 40
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 99
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of May 7, 1950
- Comebacks
- 3
- Mar 1950, after 12 quiet years · Jul 1959, after 8 quiet years · Jul 1970, after 11 quiet years
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
4 books · 674 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jubilee Trail | #3 | 46 | 352.7 | ||
| Calico Palace | #5 | 30 | 189.0 | ||
| Celia Garth | #6 | 21 | 118.3 | ||
| The Handsome Road | #6 | 2 | 13.6 |
At their peak
1950 in books →Gwen Bristow's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1950 to January 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Henry Morton Robinson544
- 2Mika Waltari458
- 3Gwen Bristow353
- 4John Hersey352
- 5Ernest Hemingway207
- 6Daphne Du Maurier197
- 7Robert Penn Warren175
- 8Kathleen Winsor171
- 9Samuel Shellabarger151
- 10Frank Yerby145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.