Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Henry Morton Robinson
Charting Apr 9, 1950 → Nov 6, 1960 · 75 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
24 crowns
19501960Longest reign 24 weeks (Apr–Oct 1950) · First crown Apr 1950
- Peak Power
- 13.83%
- week of Oct 8, 1950
- Career Power
- 747
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 24
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 621
- April 1950 – April 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 632
- May 1946 – April 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 49
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 75
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.63%
- week of Oct 8, 1950
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 1960, after 9 quiet years
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 · 747 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 Cardinal | #1 | 56 | 632.0 | ||
| Water of Life | #5 | 19 | 114.6 |
At their peak
1950 in books →Henry Morton Robinson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1950 to April 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Henry Morton Robinson621
- 2Mika Waltari348
- 3Gwen Bristow317
- 4John Hersey308
- 5Budd Schulberg266
- 6Ernest Hemingway226
- 7Frances Parkinson Keyes215
- 8Robert Penn Warren175
- 9Kathleen Winsor171
- 10Thomas B. Costain148
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.