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Morton Thompson

Charting Feb 5, 1950Oct 9, 1955 · 82 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    24 crowns

    19501955

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Not as a Stranger#179748.7
The Cry and the Covenant#1337.2

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:

  1. 1Morton Thompson630
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier335
  3. 3Irving Stone251
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell210
  5. 5Norah Lofts208
  6. 6John Steinbeck207
  7. 7James A. Michener202
  8. 8Samuel Shellabarger192
  9. 9Frances Parkinson Keyes189
  10. 10Kenneth Dodson180

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.