Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Bissell
Charting Apr 14, 1957 → Jul 14, 1957 · 14 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.12%
- week of Jun 30, 1957
- Career Power
- 57
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 57
- July 1956 – July 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 57
- July 1952 – July 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Apr 28, 1957
- 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 · 57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Say, Darling | #7 | 14 | 57.3 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Richard Bissell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1956 to July 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious541
- 2William Brinkley429
- 3Meyer Levin341
- 4Edwin O'Connor296
- 5Daphne Du Maurier264
- 6Patrick Dennis261
- 7Frances Parkinson Keyes210
- 8Richard Powell180
- 9Francoise Sagan166
- 10Simone de Beauvoir163
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.