Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ilona Karmel
Charting Apr 26, 1953 → May 24, 1953 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.63%
- week of May 24, 1953
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- June 1952 – May 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- June 1948 – May 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Apr 26, 1953
- 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 · 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephania | #11 | 3 | 7.8 |
At their peak
1952 in books →Ilona Karmel's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1952 to May 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain551
- 2Herman Wouk521
- 3John Steinbeck390
- 4Howard Spring285
- 5Daphne Du Maurier253
- 6Frances Parkinson Keyes246
- 7Edna Ferber235
- 8Annemarie Selinko218
- 9Agnes Sligh Turnbull210
- 10Ernest Hemingway175
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.