Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
MacKinlay Kantor
Charting Apr 16, 1934 → Mar 4, 1962 · 82 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
12 crowns
19341962Longest reign 12 weeks (Jan–Mar 1956) · First crown Jan 1956
- Peak Power
- 12.47%
- week of Mar 25, 1956
- Career Power
- 741
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 12
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 528
- November 1955 – October 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 528
- November 1951 – October 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 51
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 82
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jan 1, 1956
- Comebacks
- 3
- Sep 1935 · Nov 1955, after 20 quiet years · Dec 1961, after 5 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 books · 741 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andersonville | #1 | 52 | 528.4 | ||
| Spirit Lake | #4 | 20 | 130.3 | ||
| Long Remember | #3 | 5 | 45.2 | ||
| The Voice of Bugle Ann | #4 | 5 | 36.9 |
At their peak
1955 in books →MacKinlay Kantor's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1955 to October 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1MacKinlay Kantor528
- 2Edwin O'Connor469
- 3Patrick Dennis435
- 4Herman Wouk313
- 5John O'Hara289
- 6Simone de Beauvoir198
- 7Cameron Hawley195
- 8William Brinkley194
- 9Pearl S. Buck186
- 10Sloan Wilson183
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.