Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Agee
Charting Dec 29, 1957 → Jul 20, 1958 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.78%
- week of Mar 2, 1958
- Career Power
- 42
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 42
- July 1957 – July 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 42
- July 1953 – July 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Mar 2, 1958
- 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 · 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Death in the Family | #9 | 16 | 41.6 |
At their peak
1957 in books →James Agee's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1957 to July 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Gould Cozzens481
- 2Robert Traver351
- 3Grace Metalious251
- 4Nevil Shute249
- 5Anya Seton232
- 6Thomas B. Costain227
- 7Richard Mason179
- 8Edna Ferber173
- 9Ayn Rand171
- 10Helen MacInnes147
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.