Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Samuel Shellabarger
Charting Jan 22, 1950 → Nov 25, 1956 · 58 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
10 crowns
19501956Longest reign 10 weeks (Nov 1953 – Feb 1954) · First crown Nov 1953
- Peak Power
- 11.40%
- week of Mar 7, 1954
- Career Power
- 494
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 10
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 315
- June 1953 – June 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 466
- June 1949 – June 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 31
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 58
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Nov 29, 1953
- Comebacks
- 1
- Nov 1953
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
3 books · 494 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Vanity | #1 | 30 | 315.5 | ||
| The King's Cavalier | #2 | 19 | 150.7 | ||
| Tolbecken | #9 | 9 | 27.8 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Samuel Shellabarger's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1953 to June 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ernest K. Gann437
- 2Annemarie Selinko393
- 3Leon Uris367
- 4A. J. Cronin366
- 5Samuel Shellabarger315
- 6Morton Thompson276
- 7James A. Michener259
- 8James Hilton222
- 9Harnett T. Kane164
- 10Alan Paton157
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.