Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Laurens Van Der Post
Charting Mar 13, 1955 → Jun 12, 1955 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.82%
- week of May 15, 1955
- Career Power
- 29
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 29
- June 1954 – June 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 29
- June 1950 – June 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- 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 · 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flamingo Feather | #9 | 11 | 29.1 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Laurens Van Der Post's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1954 to June 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Irving Stone424
- 2Morton Thompson397
- 3Hamilton Basso371
- 4Daphne Du Maurier344
- 5Mac Hyman326
- 6Anya Seton255
- 7John Steinbeck207
- 8Frances Parkinson Keyes189
- 9John Phillips Marquand178
- 10Taylor Caldwell168
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.