Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Howard Swiggett
Charting Jul 7, 1957 → Oct 13, 1957 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.13%
- week of Oct 6, 1957
- Career Power
- 59
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 59
- October 1956 – October 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 59
- October 1952 – October 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Jul 28, 1957
- 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 · 59 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 Durable Fire | #8 | 15 | 58.8 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Howard Swiggett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1956 to October 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious701
- 2Meyer Levin451
- 3Daphne Du Maurier344
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes272
- 5William Brinkley265
- 6Patrick Dennis206
- 7Gerald Green203
- 8Richard Powell180
- 9Nicholas Monsarrat156
- 10Rebecca West156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.