Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lillian Budd
Charting Jun 17, 1951 → Oct 7, 1951 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.47%
- week of Sep 9, 1951
- Career Power
- 49
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 49
- October 1950 – October 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 49
- October 1946 – October 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Jul 29, 1951
- 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 · 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April Snow | #9 | 16 | 49.3 |
At their peak
1950 in books →Lillian Budd's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1950 to October 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Jones415
- 2Budd Schulberg357
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes354
- 4Herman Wouk317
- 5Henry Morton Robinson251
- 6Frank Yerby240
- 7James A. Michener210
- 8Ernest Hemingway188
- 9Mika Waltari170
- 10F. Van Wyck Mason164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.