Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Max Shulman
Charting Feb 3, 1946 → Sep 20, 1959 · 31 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.17%
- week of Jul 23, 1950
- Career Power
- 112
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 69
- September 1949 – September 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 111
- September 1945 – September 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 31
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of May 28, 1950
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1950
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
3 books · 112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep Till Noon | #7 | 19 | 69.2 | ||
| The Zebra Derby | #8 | 11 | 41.5 | ||
| I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Max Shulman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1949 to September 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari548
- 2Henry Morton Robinson338
- 3John Hersey325
- 4John O'Hara289
- 5Gwen Bristow272
- 6Sholem Asch258
- 7Daphne Du Maurier201
- 8Kathleen Winsor167
- 9Samuel Shellabarger151
- 10A.B. Guthrie Jr147
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.