Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
H.F.M. Prescott
Charting Oct 26, 1952 → Feb 1, 1953 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.87%
- week of Jan 18, 1953
- Career Power
- 32
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 32
- February 1952 – February 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 32
- February 1948 – February 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Oct 26, 1952
- 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 · 32 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 Man on a Donkey | #11 | 12 | 31.8 |
At their peak
1952 in books →H.F.M. Prescott's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1952 to February 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk640
- 2Daphne Du Maurier375
- 3Thomas B. Costain342
- 4Howard Spring297
- 5Agnes Sligh Turnbull291
- 6Nicholas Monsarrat284
- 7John Steinbeck241
- 8Edna Ferber176
- 9Ernest Hemingway160
- 10Barnaby Conrad158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.