Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Patrick Dennis
Charting Feb 20, 1955 → Feb 24, 1963 · 192 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 crowns
19551963Longest reign 5 weeks (Aug–Sep 1955) · First crown Aug 1955
- Peak Power
- 12.17%
- week of Dec 4, 1955
- Career Power
- 1,396
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 5
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 540
- June 1955 – June 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 1,178
- March 1954 – March 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 91
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 192
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Aug 28, 1955
- Comebacks
- 2
- Oct 1958 · Jan 1962
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
5 books · 1,396 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auntie Mame | #1 | 112 | 890.6 | ||
| Around the World with Auntie Mame | #2 | 29 | 256.1 | ||
| Little Me | #4 | 25 | 149.3 | ||
| Genius | #4 | 13 | 68.3 | ||
| The Pink Hotelwith Dorothy Erskine | #6 | 13 | 31.4 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Patrick Dennis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1955 to June 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Patrick Dennis540
- 2Herman Wouk405
- 3MacKinlay Kantor391
- 4Sloan Wilson309
- 5Robert Ruark287
- 6John O'Hara274
- 7Francoise Sagan248
- 8Edwin O'Connor227
- 9Cameron Hawley193
- 10Thomas B. Costain154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.