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James Gould Cozzens

Charting Jan 13, 1936Jun 15, 1958 · 47 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    24 crowns

    19361958

    Longest reign 24 weeks (Sep 1957 – Mar 1958) · First crown Sep 1957

Peak Power
13.72%
week of Mar 2, 1958
Career Power
501
share-weeks
Crowns
24
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
481
June 1957 – June 1958
Peak Five Years
481
June 1953 – June 1958
Top-five weeks
33
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
47
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Sep 22, 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

3 books · 501 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
By Love Possessed#141481.1
Guard of Honor#13512.7
Men and Brethren#617.3

At their peak

1957 in books

James Gould Cozzens's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1957 to June 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Gould Cozzens481
  2. 2Grace Metalious322
  3. 3Robert Traver278
  4. 4Nevil Shute249
  5. 5Thomas B. Costain227
  6. 6Richard Mason179
  7. 7Anya Seton174
  8. 8Ayn Rand171
  9. 9Meyer Levin169
  10. 10Edwin Gilbert145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.