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John McPartland

Charting Oct 6, 1957Dec 15, 1957 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.06%
week of Dec 1, 1957
Career Power
30
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
30
December 1956 – December 1957
Peak Five Years
30
December 1952 – December 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Nov 3, 1957
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 · 30 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.

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At their peak

1956 in books

John McPartland's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1956 to December 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Grace Metalious643
  2. 2Meyer Levin437
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier346
  4. 4Frances Parkinson Keyes272
  5. 5James Gould Cozzens204
  6. 6Gerald Green203
  7. 7Nevil Shute191
  8. 8Richard Powell180
  9. 9Edwin Gilbert166
  10. 10Rebecca West156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.