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Jay Richard Kennedy

Charting Mar 29, 1953Jul 5, 1953 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.47%
week of Jun 7, 1953
Career Power
73
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
73
July 1952 – July 1953
Peak Five Years
73
July 1948 – July 1953
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Apr 26, 1953
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 · 73 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.

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Prince Bart#41372.7

At their peak

1952 in books

Jay Richard Kennedy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1952 to July 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain621
  2. 2Herman Wouk452
  3. 3John Steinbeck398
  4. 4Annemarie Selinko305
  5. 5Frances Parkinson Keyes265
  6. 6Edna Ferber235
  7. 7Howard Spring229
  8. 8Daphne Du Maurier219
  9. 9Ernest Hemingway175
  10. 10Francis Van Wyck Mason161

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.