Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Phillips
Charting Feb 15, 1953 → May 3, 1953 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.69%
- week of Apr 26, 1953
- Career Power
- 74
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 74
- May 1952 – May 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 74
- May 1948 – May 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Mar 8, 1953
- 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 · 74 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 Second Happiest Day | #5 | 12 | 74.1 |
At their peak
1952 in books →John Phillips's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1952 to May 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk547
- 2Thomas B. Costain513
- 3John Steinbeck372
- 4Howard Spring297
- 5Daphne Du Maurier266
- 6Agnes Sligh Turnbull243
- 7Edna Ferber235
- 8Frances Parkinson Keyes226
- 9Ernest Hemingway175
- 10Annemarie Selinko174
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.