Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Reginald Arkell
Charting Mar 11, 1951 → Sep 9, 1951 · 24 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.45%
- week of Jun 10, 1951
- Career Power
- 67
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 67
- September 1950 – September 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 67
- September 1946 – September 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 24
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Apr 29, 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
1 book · 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Herbaceous | #10 | 24 | 66.8 |
At their peak
1950 in books →Reginald Arkell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1950 to September 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Jones368
- 2Budd Schulberg357
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes354
- 4Henry Morton Robinson309
- 5Frank Yerby260
- 6Herman Wouk259
- 7Ernest Hemingway226
- 8Mika Waltari183
- 9James A. Michener182
- 10F. Van Wyck Mason155
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.