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Stephen Longstreet

Charting Jun 10, 1951Jul 13, 1952 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.20%
week of Jul 13, 1952
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
June 1950 – June 1951
Peak Five Years
4
July 1947 – July 1952
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.82%
week of Jun 10, 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

2 books · 4 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Pedlocks#1611.8
The Beach House#1611.8

At their peak

1950 in books

Stephen Longstreet's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1950 to June 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Henry Morton Robinson498
  2. 2Budd Schulberg351
  3. 3Frances Parkinson Keyes325
  4. 4Mika Waltari251
  5. 5Ernest Hemingway226
  6. 6Gwen Bristow221
  7. 7James Jones188
  8. 8John Hersey176
  9. 9Robert Penn Warren175
  10. 10Frank Yerby165

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.