Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Pearl Schiff
Charting Oct 5, 1952 → Oct 26, 1952 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.68%
- week of Oct 26, 1952
- Career Power
- 7
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 7
- November 1951 – October 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 7
- November 1947 – October 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Oct 26, 1952
- 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
1 book · 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scollay Square | #12 | 3 | 7.1 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Pearl Schiff's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1951 to October 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk721
- 2Nicholas Monsarrat461
- 3Daphne Du Maurier375
- 4Agnes Sligh Turnbull272
- 5Howard Spring236
- 6Irving Stone218
- 7John Marquand199
- 8Graham Greene187
- 9Thomas B. Costain164
- 10Sholem Asch148
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.