Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Leonard Drohan
Charting Sep 29, 1957 → Sep 29, 1957 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of Sep 29, 1957
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- October 1956 – September 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- October 1952 – September 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Sep 29, 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 · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Come with Me to Macedonia | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Leonard Drohan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1956 to September 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious691
- 2Meyer Levin441
- 3Daphne Du Maurier344
- 4William Brinkley294
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes268
- 6Patrick Dennis215
- 7Gerald Green203
- 8Richard Powell180
- 9Nicholas Monsarrat156
- 10Rebecca West156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.