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Kyle Onstott

Charting Apr 21, 1957May 19, 1957 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.73%
week of May 19, 1957
Career Power
8
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
8
May 1956 – May 1957
Peak Five Years
8
May 1952 – May 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Apr 21, 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 · 8 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

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

  1. 1Grace Metalious434
  2. 2William Brinkley429
  3. 3Edwin O'Connor412
  4. 4Patrick Dennis319
  5. 5Meyer Levin254
  6. 6Simone de Beauvoir212
  7. 7MacKinlay Kantor185
  8. 8A. J. Cronin173
  9. 9Francoise Sagan166
  10. 10Nicholas Monsarrat156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.