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Terence Hanbury White portraitTerence Hanbury White

Charting Nov 10, 1946Jan 11, 1959 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.46%
week of Oct 19, 1958
Career Power
23
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
21
January 1958 – January 1959
Peak Five Years
21
January 1954 – January 1959
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Oct 5, 1958
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

2 books · 23 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Once and Future King#9821.4
Mistress Masham's Repose#1611.8

At their peak

1958 in books

Terence Hanbury White's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1958 to January 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Traver601
  2. 2Anya Seton297
  3. 3Edna Ferber266
  4. 4James Gould Cozzens248
  5. 5Vladimir Nabokov217
  6. 6Jerome Weidman208
  7. 7Patrick Dennis191
  8. 8Boris Pasternak173
  9. 9Helen MacInnes154
  10. 10Sloan Wilson133

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.