Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jay Richard Kennedy
Charting Mar 29, 1953 → Jul 5, 1953 · 13 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Bart | #4 | 13 | 72.7 |
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:
- 1Thomas B. Costain621
- 2Herman Wouk452
- 3John Steinbeck398
- 4Annemarie Selinko305
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes265
- 6Edna Ferber235
- 7Howard Spring229
- 8Daphne Du Maurier219
- 9Ernest Hemingway175
- 10Francis Van Wyck Mason161
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.