Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Virginia Rowans
Charting Sep 30, 1956 → Jan 20, 1957 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.70%
- week of Dec 23, 1956
- Career Power
- 74
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 74
- January 1956 – January 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 74
- January 1952 – January 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Nov 11, 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 · 74 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 Loving Couple | #7 | 17 | 73.6 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Virginia Rowans's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1956 to January 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Edwin O'Connor565
- 2Patrick Dennis405
- 3MacKinlay Kantor394
- 4William Brinkley351
- 5John O'Hara237
- 6Simone de Beauvoir212
- 7Grace Metalious204
- 8Pearl S. Buck186
- 9A. J. Cronin173
- 10Francoise Sagan166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.