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Willi Heinrich

Charting May 20, 1956Jul 8, 1956 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.68%
week of Jul 8, 1956
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
22
July 1955 – July 1956
Peak Five Years
22
July 1951 – July 1956
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Jun 3, 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 · 22 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
The Cross of Iron#9722.1

At their peak

1955 in books

Willi Heinrich's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1955 to July 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Patrick Dennis533
  2. 2MacKinlay Kantor429
  3. 3Herman Wouk405
  4. 4Sloan Wilson311
  5. 5John O'Hara285
  6. 6Edwin O'Connor270
  7. 7Robert Ruark247
  8. 8Francoise Sagan206
  9. 9Cameron Hawley193
  10. 10Thomas B. Costain154

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.