Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Dos Passos
Charting Mar 21, 1932 → Jul 9, 1961 · 32 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.97%
- week of Jun 4, 1961
- Career Power
- 192
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 87
- July 1960 – July 1961
- Peak Five Years
- 87
- July 1956 – July 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 8
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 32
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Mar 21, 1932
- Comebacks
- 3
- Aug 1936 · Mar 1949, after 12 quiet years · Apr 1961, after 12 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
5 books · 192 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midcentury | #5 | 16 | 86.9 | ||
| The Big Money | #4 | 8 | 67.8 | ||
| The Grand Design | #8 | 5 | 20.3 | ||
| 1919 | #2 | 1 | 12.7 | ||
| Chosen Country | #14 | 2 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1960 in books →John Dos Passos's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1960 to July 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener653
- 2Allen Drury553
- 3Harper Lee461
- 4Andre Schwarz-Bart341
- 5Guiseppe di Lampedusa258
- 6Mary Ellen Chase211
- 7Irving Stone194
- 8Graham Greene173
- 9Irving Wallace172
- 10Elizabeth Goudge166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.