Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lionel Shapiro
Charting Aug 28, 1955 → Nov 13, 1955 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.39%
- week of Oct 30, 1955
- Career Power
- 52
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 52
- November 1954 – November 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 52
- November 1950 – November 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Oct 9, 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 · 52 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 Sixth of June | #7 | 12 | 51.8 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Lionel Shapiro's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1954 to November 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mac Hyman424
- 2Francoise Sagan399
- 3Hamilton Basso385
- 4Patrick Dennis320
- 5Robert Ruark311
- 6Irving Stone298
- 7John Phillips Marquand256
- 8Anya Seton214
- 9Morton Thompson180
- 10Sloan Wilson148
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.