Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Tennessee Williams
Charting Oct 15, 1950 → Nov 5, 1950 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.35%
- week of Nov 5, 1950
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- November 1949 – November 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- November 1945 – November 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Oct 22, 1950
- 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 · 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Roman Spring of Mrs.Stone | #10 | 4 | 14.7 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Tennessee Williams's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1949 to November 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari508
- 2Henry Morton Robinson432
- 3John Hersey352
- 4Gwen Bristow320
- 5Sholem Asch231
- 6Daphne Du Maurier201
- 7John O'Hara191
- 8Robert Penn Warren175
- 9Kathleen Winsor171
- 10Samuel Shellabarger151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.