Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard A. Wright
Charting Apr 12, 1953 → May 10, 1953 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.35%
- week of May 10, 1953
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- May 1952 – May 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- May 1948 – May 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of May 10, 1953
- 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 · 4 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 Outsider | #15 | 2 | 3.9 |
At their peak
1952 in books →Richard A. Wright's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1952 to May 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk539
- 2Thomas B. Costain526
- 3John Steinbeck378
- 4Howard Spring297
- 5Daphne Du Maurier261
- 6Edna Ferber235
- 7Frances Parkinson Keyes233
- 8Agnes Sligh Turnbull232
- 9Annemarie Selinko189
- 10Ernest Hemingway175
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.