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Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Katherine Wigmore Eyre

Charting Nov 20, 1955Aug 30, 1959 · 17 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.56%
week of Aug 2, 1959
Career Power
53
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
48
August 1958 – August 1959
Peak Five Years
53
August 1954 – August 1959
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Jun 7, 1959
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

2 books · 53 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
The Chinese Box#101547.6
The Lute and the Glove#1325.2

At their peak

1958 in books

Katherine Wigmore Eyre's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1958 to August 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Boris Pasternak593
  2. 2Leon Uris507
  3. 3Vladimir Nabokov500
  4. 4Patrick Dennis256
  5. 5Robert Traver232
  6. 6John O'Hara198
  7. 7Eugene Burdick197
  8. 8William J. Lederer197
  9. 9Taylor Caldwell190
  10. 10Paul Gallico181

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.