Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Philip Wylie
Charting Jun 5, 1949 → Apr 28, 1963 · 58 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.43%
- week of Apr 15, 1951
- Career Power
- 301
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 92
- April 1950 – April 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 249
- June 1949 – May 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 10
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 58
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Feb 11, 1951
- Comebacks
- 3
- Feb 1951 · Feb 1954 · Mar 1963, after 9 quiet years
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 · 301 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 Disappearance | #4 | 14 | 91.5 | ||
| Tomorrow! | #5 | 17 | 90.4 | ||
| Opus 21 | #7 | 16 | 66.9 | ||
| Triumph | #6 | 8 | 46.1 | ||
| The Answer | #15 | 3 | 5.7 |
At their peak
1950 in books →Philip Wylie's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1950 to April 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Henry Morton Robinson597
- 2Mika Waltari314
- 3Budd Schulberg299
- 4Gwen Bristow291
- 5John Hersey265
- 6Frances Parkinson Keyes252
- 7Ernest Hemingway226
- 8Robert Penn Warren175
- 9Kathleen Winsor171
- 10Thomas B. Costain148
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.