Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Street
Charting Jul 17, 1949 → Apr 12, 1953 · 37 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.33%
- week of Sep 23, 1951
- Career Power
- 126
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 65
- October 1950 – October 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 126
- April 1948 – April 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 37
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Sep 9, 1951
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jul 1951 · Feb 1953
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 · 126 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 High Calling | #8 | 17 | 64.8 | ||
| The Velvet Doublet | #8 | 12 | 47.6 | ||
| Tomorrow We Reapwith James Childers | #8 | 8 | 13.3 |
At their peak
1950 in books →James Street's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1950 to October 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Jones437
- 2Budd Schulberg357
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes354
- 4Herman Wouk346
- 5Henry Morton Robinson225
- 6Frank Yerby224
- 7James A. Michener220
- 8F. Van Wyck Mason164
- 9Ernest Hemingway159
- 10Mika Waltari151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.