Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Horace McCoy
Charting Jul 4, 1948 → Sep 14, 1952 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.00%
- week of Sep 14, 1952
- Career Power
- 29
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 27
- September 1951 – September 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 29
- September 1947 – September 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Aug 31, 1952
- 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
2 books · 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scalpel | #10 | 9 | 26.8 | ||
| KISS Tomorrow Goodbye | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Horace McCoy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1951 to September 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk737
- 2Nicholas Monsarrat524
- 3Daphne Du Maurier356
- 4Agnes Sligh Turnbull235
- 5Irving Stone232
- 6John Marquand219
- 7James Jones205
- 8Graham Greene187
- 9Howard Spring182
- 10Sholem Asch165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.