Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jean Stafford
Charting Feb 3, 1952 → Feb 17, 1952 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.47%
- week of Feb 17, 1952
- Career Power
- 5
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 5
- February 1951 – February 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 5
- March 1947 – February 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Feb 3, 1952
- 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 · 5 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 Catherine Wheel | #13 | 2 | 4.8 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Jean Stafford's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1951 to February 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk593
- 2James Jones546
- 3Nicholas Monsarrat320
- 4James A. Michener223
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes219
- 6John Marquand191
- 7J.D. Salinger188
- 8Budd Schulberg168
- 9F. Van Wyck Mason164
- 10Frank Yerby149
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.