Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Charting Aug 6, 1950 → Nov 6, 1955 · 14 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grandfather Stories | #7 | 13 | 50.7 | ||
| Sunrise to Sunset | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
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:
- 1Mac Hyman430
- 2Francoise Sagan393
- 3Hamilton Basso393
- 4Irving Stone312
- 5Patrick Dennis307
- 6Robert Ruark302
- 7John Phillips Marquand256
- 8Anya Seton225
- 9Morton Thompson190
- 10Ernest Kellogg Gann138
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.