Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Shirley Barker
Charting Jan 21, 1951 → Mar 4, 1951 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.38%
- week of Mar 4, 1951
- Career Power
- 17
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 17
- March 1950 – March 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 17
- March 1946 – March 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Feb 25, 1951
- 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 · 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rivers Parting | #10 | 6 | 17.5 |
At their peak
1950 in books →Shirley Barker's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1950 to March 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Henry Morton Robinson602
- 2Mika Waltari397
- 3John Hersey352
- 4Gwen Bristow344
- 5Ernest Hemingway226
- 6Budd Schulberg215
- 7Robert Penn Warren175
- 8Kathleen Winsor171
- 9Frances Parkinson Keyes164
- 10Frank Yerby145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.