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Thyra Ferre Bjorn

Charting Oct 16, 1955Dec 25, 1955 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.30%
week of Dec 25, 1955
Career Power
20
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
20
January 1955 – December 1955
Peak Five Years
20
December 1950 – December 1955
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of Oct 16, 1955
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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Papa's Wife#11819.6

At their peak

1955 in books

Thyra Ferre Bjorn's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1955 to December 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Francoise Sagan411
  2. 2Patrick Dennis391
  3. 3Mac Hyman383
  4. 4Robert Ruark340
  5. 5Hamilton Basso313
  6. 6John Phillips Marquand256
  7. 7Irving Stone211
  8. 8Herman Wouk209
  9. 9Sloan Wilson203
  10. 10Anya Seton145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.