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Harold Sinclair

Charting Apr 1, 1956Apr 8, 1956 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.46%
week of Apr 8, 1956
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
April 1955 – April 1956
Peak Five Years
4
April 1951 – April 1956
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Apr 8, 1956
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 · 4 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
The Horse Soldiers#1424.5

At their peak

1955 in books

Harold Sinclair's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1955 to April 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Patrick Dennis516
  2. 2Francoise Sagan381
  3. 3Herman Wouk377
  4. 4Robert Ruark363
  5. 5MacKinlay Kantor285
  6. 6Sloan Wilson268
  7. 7Mac Hyman243
  8. 8John Phillips Marquand196
  9. 9John O'Hara180
  10. 10Cameron Hawley166

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.