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Marjorie Housepian

Charting Jul 21, 1957 → Aug 25, 1957 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.82%
week of Aug 25, 1957
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
10
September 1956 – August 1957
Peak Five Years
10
August 1952 – August 1957
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Aug 25, 1957
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 · 10 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
A Houseful of Love#1349.6

At their peak

1956 in books →

Marjorie Housepian's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1956 to August 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Grace Metalious628
  2. 2Meyer Levin402
  3. 3William Brinkley366
  4. 4Daphne Du Maurier325
  5. 5Frances Parkinson Keyes251
  6. 6Patrick Dennis233
  7. 7Edwin O'Connor215
  8. 8Gerald Green191
  9. 9Richard Powell180
  10. 10Francoise Sagan160

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.