Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Pamela Frankau
Charting Feb 15, 1953 → Nov 30, 1958 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.64%
- week of Sep 12, 1954
- Career Power
- 44
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 25
- September 1953 – September 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 43
- September 1949 – September 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Aug 1, 1954
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 1954
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
3 books · 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Wreath for the Enemy | #8 | 8 | 25.0 | ||
| To the Moment of Triumph | #10 | 6 | 17.6 | ||
| Ask Me No More | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Pamela Frankau's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1953 to September 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson466
- 2A. J. Cronin316
- 3Samuel Shellabarger315
- 4Ernest K. Gann310
- 5James A. Michener227
- 6James Hilton217
- 7Norah Lofts200
- 8Leon Uris195
- 9Annemarie Selinko189
- 10Kenneth Dodson169
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.