Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Paul Wellman
Charting Oct 18, 1953 → May 25, 1958 · 55 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.78%
- week of Feb 28, 1954
- Career Power
- 225
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 136
- May 1953 – May 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 225
- May 1953 – May 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 55
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Jan 17, 1954
- Comebacks
- 1
- Nov 1956
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
3 books · 225 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 Female | #6 | 31 | 135.7 | ||
| Jericho's Daughters | #8 | 16 | 68.5 | ||
| Ride the Red Earth | #11 | 8 | 20.9 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Paul Wellman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1953 to May 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ernest K. Gann443
- 2Annemarie Selinko422
- 3Leon Uris382
- 4A. J. Cronin366
- 5Samuel Shellabarger311
- 6Morton Thompson247
- 7James A. Michener244
- 8James Hilton222
- 9Harnett T. Kane164
- 10Thomas B. Costain164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.