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Henry Morton Robinson

Charting Apr 9, 1950 → Nov 6, 1960 · 75 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    24 crowns

    19501960

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Cardinal#156632.0
Water of Life#519114.6

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:

  1. 1Henry Morton Robinson621
  2. 2Mika Waltari348
  3. 3Gwen Bristow317
  4. 4John Hersey308
  5. 5Budd Schulberg266
  6. 6Ernest Hemingway226
  7. 7Frances Parkinson Keyes215
  8. 8Robert Penn Warren175
  9. 9Kathleen Winsor171
  10. 10Thomas B. Costain148

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.