Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ira Morris
Charting Apr 20, 1952 → May 4, 1952 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.35%
- week of May 4, 1952
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- May 1951 – May 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- May 1947 – May 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Apr 20, 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
1 book · 4 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 Chicago Story | #16 | 2 | 3.6 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Ira Morris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1951 to May 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk718
- 2James Jones470
- 3Nicholas Monsarrat440
- 4Irving Stone224
- 5James A. Michener220
- 6John Marquand219
- 7J.D. Salinger191
- 8Graham Greene187
- 9Sholem Asch165
- 10F. Van Wyck Mason157
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.