Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ovid Williams Pierce
Charting Mar 22, 1953 → Apr 19, 1953 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.32%
- week of Apr 19, 1953
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- April 1952 – April 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- May 1948 – April 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Mar 22, 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
1 book · 4 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 Plantation | #16 | 2 | 3.6 |
At their peak
1952 in books →Ovid Williams Pierce's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1952 to April 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk562
- 2Thomas B. Costain488
- 3John Steinbeck358
- 4Howard Spring297
- 5Daphne Du Maurier278
- 6Agnes Sligh Turnbull263
- 7Edna Ferber235
- 8Frances Parkinson Keyes210
- 9Ernest Hemingway175
- 10Nicholas Monsarrat159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.