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Paul Gallico portraitPaul Gallico

Charting Oct 9, 1949Sep 28, 1969 · 75 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.04%
week of Jun 21, 1959
Career Power
309
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
202
January 1959 – January 1960
Peak Five Years
298
July 1955 – July 1960
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
75
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Mar 8, 1959
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

6 books · 309 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris#637187.4
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York#71447.6
Thomasina#81034.6
Too Many Ghosts#111028.6
The Lonely#1237.1
The Poseidon Adventure#1014.2

At their peak

1959 in books

Paul Gallico's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1959 to January 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Leon Uris658
  2. 2Boris Pasternak469
  3. 3Taylor Caldwell363
  4. 4Vladimir Nabokov291
  5. 5Allen Drury281
  6. 6Eugene Burdick255
  7. 7William J. Lederer255
  8. 8D.H. Lawrence251
  9. 9Paul Gallico202
  10. 10John O'Hara167

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.