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John Phillips Marquand

Charting Mar 13, 1955Aug 28, 1955 · 25 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    19551955

    Longest reign 6 weeks (Apr–May 1955) · First crown Apr 1955

Peak Power
10.31%
week of Jul 10, 1955
Career Power
256
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
256
September 1954 – August 1955
Peak Five Years
256
September 1950 – August 1955
Top-five weeks
18
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Apr 10, 1955
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 · 256 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Sincerely, Willis Wayde#125255.7

At their peak

1954 in books

John Phillips Marquand's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1954 to August 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Irving Stone424
  2. 2Mac Hyman419
  3. 3Hamilton Basso395
  4. 4Francoise Sagan303
  5. 5Morton Thompson282
  6. 6John Phillips Marquand256
  7. 7Anya Seton255
  8. 8Daphne Du Maurier217
  9. 9Robert Ruark203
  10. 10Patrick Dennis173

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.