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Samuel Hopkins Adams portraitSamuel Hopkins Adams

Charting Aug 6, 1950Nov 6, 1955 · 14 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.92%
week of Oct 16, 1955
Career Power
52
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
51
November 1954 – November 1955
Peak Five Years
51
November 1950 – November 1955
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Sep 11, 1955
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 · 52 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
Grandfather Stories#71350.7
Sunrise to Sunset#1611.8

At their peak

1954 in books

Samuel Hopkins Adams's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1954 to November 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Mac Hyman430
  2. 2Francoise Sagan393
  3. 3Hamilton Basso393
  4. 4Irving Stone312
  5. 5Patrick Dennis307
  6. 6Robert Ruark302
  7. 7John Phillips Marquand256
  8. 8Anya Seton225
  9. 9Morton Thompson190
  10. 10Ernest Kellogg Gann138

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.