Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Viña Delmar
Charting Apr 22, 1956 → Jun 10, 1956 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.94%
- week of Jun 10, 1956
- Career Power
- 13
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 13
- June 1955 – June 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 13
- June 1951 – June 1956
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Apr 29, 1956
- 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 · 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beloved | #14 | 6 | 12.9 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Viña Delmar's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1955 to June 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Patrick Dennis539
- 2Herman Wouk405
- 3MacKinlay Kantor378
- 4Sloan Wilson307
- 5Robert Ruark299
- 6John O'Hara268
- 7Francoise Sagan263
- 8Edwin O'Connor212
- 9Cameron Hawley193
- 10Mac Hyman155
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.