Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Phyllis Gordon Demarest
Charting Feb 28, 1954 → Feb 28, 1954 · 1 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Naked Risk | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
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:
- 1Annemarie Selinko594
- 2Ernest K. Gann360
- 3Leon Uris358
- 4A. J. Cronin348
- 5Thomas B. Costain318
- 6James Hilton218
- 7Samuel Shellabarger205
- 8Francis Van Wyck Mason187
- 9Alan Paton157
- 10Daphne Du Maurier143
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.