Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Marguerite Yourcenar
Charting Dec 12, 1954 → Aug 11, 1957 · 21 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.19%
- week of Mar 27, 1955
- Career Power
- 106
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 104
- May 1954 – April 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 106
- August 1952 – August 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Jan 30, 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
2 books · 106 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadrian's Memoirs | #6 | 20 | 103.9 | ||
| Coup de Grace | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Marguerite Yourcenar's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1954 to April 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson497
- 2Irving Stone404
- 3Daphne Du Maurier344
- 4Hamilton Basso322
- 5Mac Hyman258
- 6Anya Seton252
- 7Taylor Caldwell210
- 8John Steinbeck207
- 9Frances Parkinson Keyes189
- 10Norah Lofts182
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.