Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Weldon Hill
Charting Mar 31, 1957 → May 12, 1957 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.63%
- week of May 12, 1957
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- May 1956 – May 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- May 1952 – May 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Apr 28, 1957
- 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 · 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onionhead | #14 | 4 | 8.1 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Weldon Hill's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1956 to May 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1William Brinkley429
- 2Edwin O'Connor427
- 3Grace Metalious421
- 4Patrick Dennis326
- 5Meyer Levin243
- 6Simone de Beauvoir212
- 7MacKinlay Kantor195
- 8A. J. Cronin173
- 9Francoise Sagan166
- 10Nicholas Monsarrat156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.