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Myron S. Kaufmann

Charting Sep 29, 1957Apr 6, 1958 · 28 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.96%
week of Mar 2, 1958
Career Power
141
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
141
April 1957 – April 1958
Peak Five Years
141
April 1953 – April 1958
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Oct 20, 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

1 book · 141 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
Remember Me to God#628141.2

At their peak

1957 in books

Myron S. Kaufmann's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1957 to April 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Grace Metalious449
  2. 2James Gould Cozzens424
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier280
  4. 4Meyer Levin274
  5. 5Nevil Shute249
  6. 6Thomas B. Costain226
  7. 7Frances Parkinson Keyes199
  8. 8Richard Mason179
  9. 9Ayn Rand171
  10. 10Edwin Gilbert166

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.