Skip to content

Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Robert Traver

Charting Jan 26, 1958Jul 22, 1962 · 72 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors

Honours

Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    29 crowns

    19581962

    Longest reign 29 weeks (Mar–Sep 1958) · First crown Mar 1958

Peak Power
14.20%
week of Sep 21, 1958
Career Power
690
share-weeks
Crowns
29
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
615
January 1958 – February 1959
Peak Five Years
690
July 1957 – July 1962
Top-five weeks
44
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
72
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Mar 9, 1958
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

2 books · 690 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Anatomy of a Murder#159640.8
Hornstein's Boy#81348.8

At their peak

1958 in books

Robert Traver's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1958 to February 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Traver615
  2. 2Anya Seton297
  3. 3Edna Ferber266
  4. 4Vladimir Nabokov255
  5. 5Boris Pasternak216
  6. 6Patrick Dennis213
  7. 7Jerome Weidman208
  8. 8James Gould Cozzens205
  9. 9Helen MacInnes154
  10. 10Mary Renault145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.