Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Paul I. Wellman
Charting Feb 23, 1947 → Jan 6, 1963 · 83 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.79%
- week of Nov 4, 1951
- Career Power
- 391
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 152
- April 1951 – March 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 341
- February 1947 – February 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 16
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 83
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Mar 9, 1947
- Comebacks
- 2
- May 1949 · Sep 1951
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
4 books · 391 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Iron Mistress | #5 | 29 | 152.3 | ||
| The Walls of Jericho | #4 | 16 | 103.7 | ||
| The Chain | #5 | 20 | 89.9 | ||
| Magnificent Destiny | #11 | 18 | 44.7 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Paul I. Wellman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1951 to March 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk678
- 2James Jones534
- 3Nicholas Monsarrat388
- 4James A. Michener223
- 5John Marquand219
- 6Irving Stone197
- 7J.D. Salinger191
- 8Graham Greene167
- 9F. Van Wyck Mason164
- 10Sholem Asch163
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.