Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sloan Wilson
Charting Jul 31, 1955 → Apr 9, 1961 · 76 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.98%
- week of Dec 18, 1955
- Career Power
- 475
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 311
- July 1955 – July 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 444
- August 1953 – August 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 30
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 76
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Sep 18, 1955
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1958
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
3 books · 475 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | #3 | 48 | 310.9 | ||
| A Summer Place | #4 | 18 | 132.7 | ||
| A Sense of Values | #10 | 10 | 31.9 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Sloan Wilson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1955 to July 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Patrick Dennis533
- 2MacKinlay Kantor429
- 3Herman Wouk405
- 4Sloan Wilson311
- 5John O'Hara285
- 6Edwin O'Connor270
- 7Robert Ruark247
- 8Francoise Sagan206
- 9Cameron Hawley193
- 10Thomas B. Costain154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.