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Paul Hyde Bonner

Charting Apr 13, 1952Nov 15, 1959 · 62 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.46%
week of Sep 4, 1955
Career Power
271
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
78
June 1955 – June 1956
Peak Five Years
205
June 1951 – June 1956
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
62
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of May 31, 1953
Comebacks
2
Jul 1955 · Sep 1959

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

5 books · 271 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
Excelsior!#51371.5
The Art of Llewellyn Jones#71666.2
Hotel Tallyrand#51364.0
S P Q R#71863.0
With Both Eyes Open#1026.6

At their peak

1955 in books

Paul Hyde Bonner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1955 to June 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Patrick Dennis538
  2. 2Herman Wouk405
  3. 3MacKinlay Kantor365
  4. 4Robert Ruark312
  5. 5Sloan Wilson305
  6. 6Francoise Sagan277
  7. 7John O'Hara261
  8. 8Edwin O'Connor198
  9. 9Cameron Hawley193
  10. 10Mac Hyman163

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.