Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mac Hyman
Charting Oct 24, 1954 → Mar 18, 1956 · 66 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 10.25%
- week of May 15, 1955
- Career Power
- 480
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 446
- October 1954 – October 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 480
- March 1951 – March 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 36
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 66
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Feb 13, 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 · 480 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Time for Sergeants | #2 | 66 | 480.5 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Mac Hyman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1954 to October 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mac Hyman446
- 2Hamilton Basso395
- 3Francoise Sagan371
- 4Irving Stone356
- 5Robert Ruark276
- 6Patrick Dennis269
- 7John Phillips Marquand256
- 8Anya Seton252
- 9Morton Thompson223
- 10Ernest Kellogg Gann159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.