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Max Wylie

Charting Jun 28, 1959Jun 28, 1959 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.23%
week of Jun 28, 1959
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
June 1958 – June 1959
Peak Five Years
2
June 1954 – June 1959
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Jun 28, 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Trouble in the Flesh#1512.1

At their peak

1958 in books

Max Wylie's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1958 to June 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Boris Pasternak508
  2. 2Vladimir Nabokov455
  3. 3Leon Uris376
  4. 4Robert Traver363
  5. 5Patrick Dennis256
  6. 6Jerome Weidman208
  7. 7John O'Hara196
  8. 8Mary Renault154
  9. 9Edna Ferber153
  10. 10Paul Gallico150

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.