Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Peter De Vries
Charting Jun 20, 1954 → Mar 26, 1961 · 42 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.65%
- week of Sep 27, 1959
- Career Power
- 142
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 44
- August 1955 – August 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 124
- March 1956 – March 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 42
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Jun 10, 1956
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jun 1956 · May 1958
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 · 142 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comfort Me with Apples | #7 | 13 | 44.0 | ||
| The Mackerel Plaza | #8 | 11 | 40.2 | ||
| The Tents of Wickedness | #7 | 8 | 36.0 | ||
| The Tunnel of Love | #12 | 8 | 17.8 | ||
| Through the Fields of Clover | #14 | 2 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Peter De Vries's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1955 to August 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Patrick Dennis509
- 2MacKinlay Kantor476
- 3Herman Wouk405
- 4Edwin O'Connor341
- 5Sloan Wilson297
- 6John O'Hara286
- 7Cameron Hawley195
- 8Robert Ruark182
- 9Pearl S. Buck164
- 10Thomas B. Costain154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.