Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Norman Mailer
Charting May 23, 1948 → Feb 25, 2007 · 127 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
19 crowns
19482007Longest reign 11 weeks (Jun–Aug 1948) · First crown Jun 1948
- Peak Power
- 13.33%
- week of Nov 21, 1948
- Career Power
- 917
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 19
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 575
- June 1948 – May 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 612
- July 1946 – July 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 47
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 127
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jun 20, 1948
- 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
9 books · 917 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 Naked and the Dead | #1 | 62 | 603.6 | ||
| Ancient Evenings | #6 | 17 | 82.2 | ||
| The Deer Park | #6 | 15 | 74.2 | ||
| Tough Guys Don't Dance | #4 | 11 | 66.1 | ||
| An American Dream | #8 | 6 | 27.6 | ||
| The Gospel According to the Son | #7 | 6 | 24.6 | ||
| The Castle in the Forest | #5 | 3 | 19.3 | ||
| Harlot's Ghost | #12 | 4 | 10.7 | ||
| Barbary Shore | #11 | 3 | 8.9 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Norman Mailer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1948 to May 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer575
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas362
- 3Irwin Shaw298
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes294
- 5A. J. Cronin203
- 6Carl Sandburg165
- 7Elizabeth Goudge162
- 8Betty Smith162
- 9Frank Yerby159
- 10Evelyn Waugh154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s.