Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Taylor Caldwell

Charting Sep 26, 1938 → May 17, 1981 · 524 weeks with chart power

Peak Power: 12.20%; week of Oct 27, 1946
Career Power: 3,842; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 9; weeks as the top author

Peak Year: 460; April 1959 – March 1960
Peak Five Years: 977; August 1958 – September 1963
Top-five weeks: 240; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 524; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of May 12, 1946
Comebacks: 10; May 1942, August 1945, June 1954, January 1958, May 1959, February 1962, July 1968, June 1970, May 1972, February 1981

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After decline	Jan 23, 1939	May 4, 1942	171	64	4.54%	1.72%
After absence	Jul 6, 1942	Aug 12, 1945	162	153	4.54%	2.15%
After decline	Jun 17, 1951	Jun 20, 1954	156	90	12.20%	4.69%
After decline	Jan 2, 1955	Jan 5, 1958	157	77	12.20%	4.37%
After decline	Apr 13, 1958	May 17, 1959	55	49	12.20%	4.57%
After decline	Jul 24, 1960	Feb 11, 1962	81	36	12.20%	4.79%
After absence	Nov 3, 1963	Jul 7, 1968	241	106	12.20%	4.94%
After decline	Apr 13, 1969	Jun 14, 1970	61	55	12.20%	4.38%
After decline	Feb 21, 1971	May 28, 1972	66	62	12.20%	4.54%
After decline	Jan 28, 1973	Feb 8, 1981	406	96	12.20%	5.03%

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

27 books · 3,842 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
Dear and Glorious Physician	#3November 1959	64	April 1959 – July 1960	509.9	509.9
This Side of Innocence	#1May 1946	41	April 1946 – February 1947	450.8	450.8
Testimony of Two Men	#3July 1968	42	May 1968 – March 1969	331.3	331.3
Great Lion of God	#2July 1970	34	May 1970 – January 1971	310.2	310.2
Captains and the Kings	#2August 1972	31	April 1972 – November 1972	293.3	293.3
Never Victorious, Never Defeated	#2June 1954	29	May 1954 – December 1954	210.1	210.1
A Prologue to Love	#3February 1962	30	December 1961 – June 1962	203.6	203.6
Let Love Come Last	#2September 1949	23	August 1949 – January 1950	197.7	197.7
Grandmother and the Priests	#3June 1963	23	March 1963 – September 1963	183.9	183.9
Answer as a Man	#2February 1981	20	December 1980 – May 1981	161.0	161.0
Melissa	#3August 1948	17	July 1948 – October 1948	127.7	127.7
The Sound of Thunder	#6December 1957	21	October 1957 – March 1958	116.5	116.5
The Balance Wheel	#3March 1951	18	January 1951 – June 1951	111.3	111.3
There Was a Time	#3June 1947	14	May 1947 – August 1947	96.8	96.8
Bright Flows the River	#5December 1978	19	November 1978 – March 1979	83.8	83.8
The Listener	#9December 1960	24	October 1960 – March 1961	80.0	80.0
Ceremony of the Innocent	#6January 1977	13	November 1976 – March 1977	74.3	74.3
A Pillar of Iron	#8June 1965	12	May 1965 – August 1965	57.1	57.1
Dynasty of Death	#3October 1938	6	September 1938 – October 1938	55.4	55.4
The Devil's Advocate	#7June 1952	13	May 1952 – August 1952	47.9	47.9
Tender Victory	#10February 1956	14	January 1956 – April 1956	42.5	42.5
The Wide House	#3June 1945	7	June 1945 – October 1945	37.7	37.7
The Strong City	#4May 1942	3	April 1942 – May 1942	26.3	26.3
Glory and the Lightning	#8December 1974	3	December 1974 – February 1975	13.9	13.9
The Eagles Gather	#6January 1940	1	January 1940	7.3	7.3
The Earth Is the Lord's	#6January 1941	1	January 1941	7.3	7.3
No One Hears but Him	#10April 1966	1	April 1966	4.2	4.2