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Pierre La Mure

Charting Dec 24, 1950Jan 6, 1963 · 23 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.47%
week of Aug 5, 1951
Career Power
56
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
43
August 1950 – August 1951
Peak Five Years
43
August 1946 – August 1951
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
23
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of Jan 14, 1951
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

3 books · 56 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
Moulin Rouge#111743.0
Beyond Desire#1337.0
Clair de Lune#1536.0

At their peak

1950 in books

Pierre La Mure's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1950 to August 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Henry Morton Robinson382
  2. 2Budd Schulberg357
  3. 3Frances Parkinson Keyes352
  4. 4James Jones305
  5. 5Frank Yerby233
  6. 6Ernest Hemingway226
  7. 7Mika Waltari202
  8. 8Herman Wouk187
  9. 9Thomas B. Costain148
  10. 10Gwen Bristow145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.