Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Morton Thompson
Charting Feb 5, 1950 → Oct 9, 1955 · 82 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
24 crowns
19501955Longest reign 24 weeks (Feb–Jul 1954) · First crown Feb 1954
- Peak Power
- 13.80%
- week of Jul 25, 1954
- Career Power
- 756
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 24
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 630
- January 1954 – January 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 749
- October 1950 – October 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 43
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 82
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Feb 14, 1954
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
2 books · 756 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not as a Stranger | #1 | 79 | 748.7 | ||
| The Cry and the Covenant | #13 | 3 | 7.2 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Morton Thompson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1954 to January 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson630
- 2Daphne Du Maurier335
- 3Irving Stone251
- 4Taylor Caldwell210
- 5Norah Lofts208
- 6John Steinbeck207
- 7James A. Michener202
- 8Samuel Shellabarger192
- 9Frances Parkinson Keyes189
- 10Kenneth Dodson180
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.