Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Helen Ashton
Charting Aug 19, 1956 → Aug 19, 1956 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of Aug 19, 1956
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- August 1955 – August 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- August 1951 – August 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Aug 19, 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 · 2 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 Half-Crown House | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Helen Ashton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1955 to August 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Patrick Dennis503
- 2MacKinlay Kantor483
- 3Herman Wouk405
- 4Edwin O'Connor354
- 5Sloan Wilson289
- 6John O'Hara286
- 7Cameron Hawley195
- 8Robert Ruark171
- 9Pearl S. Buck169
- 10Thomas B. Costain154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.