Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robert Carson
Charting Dec 28, 1952 → Mar 1, 1953 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.35%
- week of Mar 1, 1953
- Career Power
- 20
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 20
- March 1952 – March 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 20
- March 1948 – March 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Jan 18, 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 · 20 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 Magic Lantern | #10 | 8 | 19.7 |
At their peak
1952 in books →Robert Carson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1952 to March 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk611
- 2Thomas B. Costain400
- 3Daphne Du Maurier353
- 4Howard Spring297
- 5Agnes Sligh Turnbull291
- 6John Steinbeck290
- 7Nicholas Monsarrat235
- 8Edna Ferber209
- 9Ernest Hemingway172
- 10Barnaby Conrad158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.