Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Charting Apr 12, 1959 → Jun 21, 1959 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.35%
- week of Jun 21, 1959
- Career Power
- 20
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 20
- June 1958 – June 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 20
- June 1954 – June 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of May 17, 1959
- 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 · 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spinster | #12 | 8 | 20.3 |
At their peak
1958 in books →Sylvia Ashton-Warner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1958 to June 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Boris Pasternak495
- 2Vladimir Nabokov448
- 3Robert Traver377
- 4Leon Uris362
- 5Patrick Dennis256
- 6Jerome Weidman208
- 7John O'Hara196
- 8Edna Ferber165
- 9Mary Renault154
- 10Paul Gallico145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.