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Harriette Arnow

Charting May 16, 1954Jan 9, 1955 · 31 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.51%
week of Aug 29, 1954
Career Power
157
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
157
January 1954 – January 1955
Peak Five Years
157
January 1950 – January 1955
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Jun 27, 1954
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 · 157 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 Dollmaker#431157.2

At their peak

1954 in books

Harriette Arnow's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1954 to January 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Morton Thompson622
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier332
  3. 3Irving Stone238
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell210
  5. 5Norah Lofts208
  6. 6John Steinbeck207
  7. 7Samuel Shellabarger206
  8. 8James A. Michener202
  9. 9Frances Parkinson Keyes189
  10. 10Kenneth Dodson180

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.