Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Oakley Hall
Charting May 3, 1953 → Oct 5, 1958 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.25%
- week of Jun 14, 1953
- Career Power
- 19
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 17
- June 1952 – June 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 17
- June 1948 – June 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of May 10, 1953
- 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 · 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corpus of Joe Bailey | #10 | 6 | 16.8 | ||
| Warlock | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1952 in books →Oakley Hall's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1952 to June 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain589
- 2Herman Wouk488
- 3John Steinbeck398
- 4Annemarie Selinko262
- 5Howard Spring259
- 6Frances Parkinson Keyes258
- 7Daphne Du Maurier239
- 8Edna Ferber235
- 9Agnes Sligh Turnbull177
- 10Ernest Hemingway175
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.