Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
J. B. Priestley
Charting Aug 8, 1932 → Aug 5, 1951 · 28 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
19321951First crown Aug 1932
- Peak Power
- 4.45%
- week of Jul 8, 1951
- Career Power
- 198
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 86
- August 1950 – August 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 86
- August 1946 – August 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 10
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 28
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Aug 15, 1932
- Comebacks
- 3
- Sep 1936 · Mar 1943, after 6 quiet years · May 1951, after 8 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
4 books · 198 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Festival | #5 | 16 | 85.5 | ||
| Faraway | #1 | 4 | 49.2 | ||
| Black-Out in Gretley | #4 | 5 | 44.2 | ||
| They Walk in the City | #6 | 3 | 19.1 |
At their peak
1950 in books →J. B. Priestley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1950 to August 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Henry Morton Robinson382
- 2Budd Schulberg357
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes352
- 4James Jones305
- 5Frank Yerby233
- 6Ernest Hemingway226
- 7Mika Waltari202
- 8Herman Wouk187
- 9Thomas B. Costain148
- 10Gwen Bristow145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.