Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Meyer Levin
Charting Nov 18, 1956 → Jul 2, 1972 · 71 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 10.61%
- week of Jul 28, 1957
- Career Power
- 535
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 462
- November 1956 – November 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 502
- December 1954 – December 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 36
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 71
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Feb 17, 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
4 books · 535 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsion | #2 | 54 | 466.1 | ||
| Eva | #7 | 10 | 36.2 | ||
| The Settlers | #8 | 4 | 19.3 | ||
| The Fanatic | #8 | 3 | 13.9 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Meyer Levin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1956 to November 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious689
- 2Meyer Levin462
- 3Daphne Du Maurier346
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes272
- 5William Brinkley206
- 6Gerald Green203
- 7Richard Powell180
- 8Patrick Dennis175
- 9Edwin Gilbert163
- 10Rebecca West156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.