Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Thurber
Charting Oct 28, 1945 → Sep 8, 1957 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.30%
- week of Sep 1, 1957
- Career Power
- 68
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 39
- September 1956 – September 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 39
- September 1952 – September 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Jan 14, 1951
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1957, after 6 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
3 books · 68 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 Wonderful O. | #10 | 13 | 38.9 | ||
| The 13 Clocks | #9 | 8 | 23.4 | ||
| The White Deer | #12 | 2 | 5.3 |
At their peak
1956 in books →James Thurber's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1956 to September 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious657
- 2Meyer Levin422
- 3William Brinkley337
- 4Daphne Du Maurier336
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes260
- 6Patrick Dennis226
- 7Gerald Green197
- 8Edwin O'Connor189
- 9Richard Powell180
- 10Nicholas Monsarrat156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.