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Phyllis Gordon Demarest

Charting Feb 28, 1954Feb 28, 1954 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.20%
week of Feb 28, 1954
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
March 1953 – February 1954
Peak Five Years
2
March 1949 – February 1954
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.82%
week of Feb 28, 1954
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 · 2 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Naked Risk#1611.8

At their peak

1953 in books

Phyllis Gordon Demarest's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1953 to February 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Annemarie Selinko594
  2. 2Ernest K. Gann360
  3. 3Leon Uris358
  4. 4A. J. Cronin348
  5. 5Thomas B. Costain318
  6. 6James Hilton218
  7. 7Samuel Shellabarger205
  8. 8Francis Van Wyck Mason187
  9. 9Alan Paton157
  10. 10Daphne Du Maurier143

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.