Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robert Traver
Charting Jan 26, 1958 → Jul 22, 1962 · 72 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
29 crowns
19581962Longest 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anatomy of a Murder | #1 | 59 | 640.8 | ||
| Hornstein's Boy | #8 | 13 | 48.8 |
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:
- 1Robert Traver615
- 2Anya Seton297
- 3Edna Ferber266
- 4Vladimir Nabokov255
- 5Boris Pasternak216
- 6Patrick Dennis213
- 7Jerome Weidman208
- 8James Gould Cozzens205
- 9Helen MacInnes154
- 10Mary Renault145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.