Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Susan Ertz
Charting Apr 15, 1935 → Sep 23, 1956 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.11%
- week of Sep 23, 1956
- Career Power
- 82
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 48
- October 1955 – September 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 48
- September 1951 – September 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.56%
- week of Apr 15, 1935
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1956, after 21 quiet years
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 · 82 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charmed Circle | #8 | 11 | 47.9 | ||
| Now We Set Out | #5 | 4 | 31.8 | ||
| The Prodigal Heart | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Susan Ertz's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1955 to September 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1MacKinlay Kantor512
- 2Patrick Dennis462
- 3Edwin O'Connor415
- 4Herman Wouk385
- 5John O'Hara289
- 6Sloan Wilson238
- 7Cameron Hawley195
- 8Pearl S. Buck184
- 9Simone de Beauvoir156
- 10Thomas B. Costain154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.