Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Paul Gallico
Charting Oct 9, 1949 → Sep 28, 1969 · 75 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris | #6 | 37 | 187.4 | ||
| Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York | #7 | 14 | 47.6 | ||
| Thomasina | #8 | 10 | 34.6 | ||
| Too Many Ghosts | #11 | 10 | 28.6 | ||
| The Lonely | #12 | 3 | 7.1 | ||
| The Poseidon Adventure | #10 | 1 | 4.2 |
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:
- 1Leon Uris658
- 2Boris Pasternak469
- 3Taylor Caldwell363
- 4Vladimir Nabokov291
- 5Allen Drury281
- 6Eugene Burdick255
- 7William J. Lederer255
- 8D.H. Lawrence251
- 9Paul Gallico202
- 10John O'Hara167
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.