Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ralph Ellison
Charting May 4, 1952 → Aug 3, 1952 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.41%
- week of Jul 20, 1952
- Career Power
- 43
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 43
- August 1951 – August 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 43
- August 1947 – August 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Jun 22, 1952
- 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 · 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invisible Man | #8 | 13 | 43.2 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Ralph Ellison's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1951 to August 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk740
- 2Nicholas Monsarrat537
- 3Daphne Du Maurier310
- 4James Jones281
- 5Irving Stone232
- 6John Marquand219
- 7Graham Greene187
- 8Agnes Sligh Turnbull185
- 9J.D. Salinger183
- 10Frank Yerby175
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.