Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Leo Rosten
Charting Nov 8, 1959 → Jan 17, 1960 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.70%
- week of Jan 17, 1960
- Career Power
- 9
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 9
- January 1959 – January 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- January 1955 – January 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Jan 17, 1960
- 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 · 9 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 Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N | #13 | 4 | 9.1 |
At their peak
1959 in books →Leo Rosten's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1959 to January 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris656
- 2Boris Pasternak455
- 3Taylor Caldwell374
- 4Allen Drury293
- 5Vladimir Nabokov279
- 6Eugene Burdick254
- 7William J. Lederer254
- 8D.H. Lawrence251
- 9Paul Gallico202
- 10John O'Hara156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.