Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Margaret Echard
Charting Dec 16, 1956 → Dec 23, 1956 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.40%
- week of Dec 23, 1956
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- January 1956 – December 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- December 1951 – December 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Dec 16, 1956
- 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 · 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born in Wedlock | #15 | 2 | 3.9 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Margaret Echard's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1956 to December 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Edwin O'Connor543
- 2MacKinlay Kantor452
- 3Patrick Dennis414
- 4William Brinkley301
- 5John O'Hara273
- 6Simone de Beauvoir212
- 7Herman Wouk196
- 8Pearl S. Buck186
- 9A. J. Cronin173
- 10Francoise Sagan166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.