Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Hamilton Basso
Charting Nov 7, 1954 → Sep 13, 1959 · 53 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
14 crowns
19541959Longest reign 14 weeks (Jan–Apr 1955) · First crown Jan 1955
- Peak Power
- 12.96%
- week of Apr 3, 1955
- Career Power
- 450
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 14
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 395
- August 1954 – August 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 450
- September 1954 – September 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 25
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 53
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jan 2, 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 →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 books · 450 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 View from Pompey's Head | #1 | 40 | 395.0 | ||
| The Light Infantry Ball | #8 | 13 | 55.0 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Hamilton Basso's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1954 to August 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Irving Stone424
- 2Mac Hyman400
- 3Hamilton Basso395
- 4Morton Thompson302
- 5Francoise Sagan261
- 6Daphne Du Maurier260
- 7Anya Seton255
- 8John Phillips Marquand248
- 9Robert Ruark169
- 10Ernest Kellogg Gann159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.