Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robert Tallant
Charting Jul 18, 1954 → Jul 18, 1954 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of Jul 18, 1954
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- July 1953 – July 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- July 1949 – July 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Jul 18, 1954
- 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 · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs. Candy Strikes It Rich | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Robert Tallant's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1953 to July 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ernest K. Gann389
- 2A. J. Cronin366
- 3Morton Thompson363
- 4Samuel Shellabarger315
- 5Annemarie Selinko306
- 6Leon Uris296
- 7James A. Michener273
- 8James Hilton222
- 9Harnett T. Kane164
- 10Norah Lofts164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.