Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Nancy Mitford
Charting Jul 7, 1946 → Jul 16, 1961 · 40 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.44%
- week of Jun 25, 1961
- Career Power
- 154
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 61
- February 1951 – January 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 77
- February 1947 – January 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 40
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Jun 11, 1961
- Comebacks
- 3
- Aug 1949 · Nov 1951 · May 1961, after 9 quiet years
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 · 154 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Blessing | #8 | 14 | 61.4 | ||
| Don't Tell Alfred | #6 | 13 | 54.2 | ||
| The Pursuit of Love | #8 | 8 | 23.2 | ||
| Love in a Cold Climate | #11 | 5 | 15.5 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Nancy Mitford's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1951 to January 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk550
- 2James Jones532
- 3Nicholas Monsarrat282
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes261
- 5James A. Michener223
- 6Budd Schulberg207
- 7J.D. Salinger186
- 8F. Van Wyck Mason164
- 9John Marquand161
- 10Frank Yerby149
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.