Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Hersey
Charting Mar 5, 1944 → May 21, 1967 · 124 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 crowns
19441967Longest reign 5 weeks (Mar–Apr 1950) · First crown Mar 1950
- Peak Power
- 11.44%
- week of Jul 23, 1950
- Career Power
- 1,032
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 5
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 352
- November 1949 – October 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 361
- January 1956 – January 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 77
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 124
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Mar 26, 1950
- Comebacks
- 3
- Apr 1950, after 5 quiet years · Aug 1956, after 6 quiet years · Nov 1959
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 books · 1,032 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 Wall | #1 | 34 | 351.5 | ||
| A Bell for Adano | #2 | 28 | 289.3 | ||
| The War Lover | #2 | 22 | 166.8 | ||
| A Single Pebble | #4 | 23 | 152.9 | ||
| The Child Buyer | #8 | 11 | 41.0 | ||
| Under the Eye of the Storm | #7 | 6 | 30.4 |
At their peak
1949 in books →John Hersey's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1949 to October 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari511
- 2Henry Morton Robinson419
- 3John Hersey352
- 4Gwen Bristow314
- 5Sholem Asch242
- 6John O'Hara204
- 7Daphne Du Maurier201
- 8Kathleen Winsor171
- 9Robert Penn Warren171
- 10Samuel Shellabarger151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.