Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Nelson Algren
Charting Oct 2, 1949 → Sep 23, 1956 · 38 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.07%
- week of Jan 15, 1950
- Career Power
- 149
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 94
- May 1949 – May 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 94
- May 1945 – May 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 38
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Oct 23, 1949
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1956, after 6 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
2 books · 149 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 Man with the Golden Arm | #7 | 23 | 94.1 | ||
| A Walk on the Wild Side | #8 | 15 | 55.0 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Nelson Algren's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1949 to May 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari460
- 2John O'Hara324
- 3John P. Marquand285
- 4Sholem Asch256
- 5Edward Streeter254
- 6Lloyd C. Douglas253
- 7Taylor Caldwell198
- 8Daphne Du Maurier190
- 9Frank Yerby160
- 10Samuel Shellabarger144
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.