Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Maria Dermout
Charting Oct 4, 1959 → Oct 4, 1959 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.23%
- week of Oct 4, 1959
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- September 1958 – October 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- October 1954 – October 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Oct 4, 1959
- 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 · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yesterday | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Maria Dermout's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1958 to October 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Boris Pasternak627
- 2Leon Uris578
- 3Vladimir Nabokov481
- 4Taylor Caldwell231
- 5Eugene Burdick222
- 6William J. Lederer222
- 7Patrick Dennis222
- 8D.H. Lawrence221
- 9John O'Hara198
- 10Paul Gallico186
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.