Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Livingston Biddle
Charting Jun 4, 1950 → Jun 25, 1950 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.62%
- week of Jun 25, 1950
- Career Power
- 7
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 7
- July 1949 – June 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 7
- July 1945 – June 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Jun 11, 1950
- 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 · 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Line | #13 | 3 | 7.0 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Livingston Biddle's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1949 to June 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari509
- 2John O'Hara324
- 3Sholem Asch258
- 4Edward Streeter234
- 5John Hersey201
- 6Daphne Du Maurier201
- 7John P. Marquand198
- 8Taylor Caldwell198
- 9Lloyd C. Douglas177
- 10Henry Morton Robinson163
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.