Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Seymour Shubin
Charting Sep 20, 1953 → Sep 20, 1953 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of Sep 20, 1953
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- September 1952 – September 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- October 1948 – September 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Sep 20, 1953
- 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
1 book · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anyone's My Name | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1952 in books →Seymour Shubin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1952 to September 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain590
- 2Annemarie Selinko465
- 3John Steinbeck401
- 4Herman Wouk316
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes270
- 6Edna Ferber235
- 7Leon Uris212
- 8Francis Van Wyck Mason187
- 9Ernest Hemingway165
- 10Ernest K. Gann162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.