Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lawrence Schoonover
Charting Oct 31, 1948 → Jun 27, 1954 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.70%
- week of Jun 13, 1954
- Career Power
- 57
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 41
- June 1953 – June 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 41
- July 1949 – June 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of May 16, 1954
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1954, after 5 quiet years
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 · 57 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 Spider King | #8 | 11 | 41.1 | ||
| The Burnished Blade | #10 | 6 | 16.4 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Lawrence Schoonover's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1953 to June 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ernest K. Gann415
- 2A. J. Cronin366
- 3Annemarie Selinko349
- 4Leon Uris334
- 5Morton Thompson319
- 6Samuel Shellabarger315
- 7James A. Michener271
- 8James Hilton222
- 9Harnett T. Kane164
- 10Alan Paton157
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.