Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Theodore Morrison
Charting Mar 22, 1953 → Apr 26, 1953 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.20%
- week of Apr 26, 1953
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- May 1952 – April 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- May 1948 – April 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Apr 5, 1953
- 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 Stones of the House | #11 | 5 | 14.8 |
At their peak
1952 in books →Theodore Morrison's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1952 to April 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk554
- 2Thomas B. Costain501
- 3John Steinbeck365
- 4Howard Spring297
- 5Daphne Du Maurier272
- 6Agnes Sligh Turnbull254
- 7Edna Ferber235
- 8Frances Parkinson Keyes217
- 9Ernest Hemingway175
- 10Annemarie Selinko160
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.