Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robert P. Kirsch
Charting Jul 12, 1959 → Jul 19, 1959 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.44%
- week of Jul 19, 1959
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- July 1958 – July 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- July 1954 – July 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Jul 19, 1959
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the Wrong Rain | #14 | 2 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Robert P. Kirsch's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1958 to July 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Boris Pasternak538
- 2Vladimir Nabokov472
- 3Leon Uris420
- 4Robert Traver319
- 5Patrick Dennis256
- 6Jerome Weidman201
- 7John O'Hara198
- 8Eugene Burdick164
- 9William J. Lederer164
- 10Paul Gallico163
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.