Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jerome Weidman
Charting Jul 6, 1958 → Sep 16, 1962 · 37 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 9.20%
- week of Oct 5, 1958
- Career Power
- 253
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 208
- December 1957 – December 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 253
- September 1957 – September 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 15
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 37
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jul 27, 1958
- 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
3 books · 253 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 Enemy Camp | #2 | 23 | 208.2 | ||
| Before You Go | #9 | 10 | 35.4 | ||
| The Sound of Bow Bells | #12 | 4 | 9.5 |
At their peak
1957 in books →Jerome Weidman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1957 to December 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Traver584
- 2Anya Seton297
- 3James Gould Cozzens292
- 4Edna Ferber266
- 5Jerome Weidman208
- 6Vladimir Nabokov179
- 7Patrick Dennis163
- 8Helen MacInnes154
- 9Thomas B. Costain146
- 10Sloan Wilson133
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.