Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sybille Bedford
Charting Mar 3, 1957 → Jun 23, 1957 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.51%
- week of Jun 9, 1957
- Career Power
- 48
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 48
- July 1956 – June 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 48
- June 1952 – June 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Apr 14, 1957
- 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 · 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Legacy | #8 | 16 | 48.3 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Sybille Bedford's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1956 to June 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious497
- 2William Brinkley429
- 3Edwin O'Connor340
- 4Meyer Levin308
- 5Patrick Dennis280
- 6Daphne Du Maurier226
- 7Simone de Beauvoir193
- 8Frances Parkinson Keyes184
- 9Richard Powell172
- 10Francoise Sagan166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.