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William Brinkley portraitWilliam Brinkley

Charting Jul 22, 1956 → Apr 14, 1957 · 39 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    15 crowns

    19561957

    Longest reign 15 weeks (Aug–Nov 1956) · First crown Aug 1956

Peak Power
12.53%
week of Jan 20, 1957
Career Power
429
share-weeks
Crowns
15
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
429
April 1956 – April 1957
Peak Five Years
429
April 1952 – April 1957
Top-five weeks
30
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
39
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Aug 12, 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 · 429 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
Don't Go Near the Water#139429.4

At their peak

1956 in books →

William Brinkley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1956 to April 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Edwin O'Connor485
  2. 2William Brinkley429
  3. 3Grace Metalious371
  4. 4Patrick Dennis350
  5. 5MacKinlay Kantor232
  6. 6Simone de Beauvoir212
  7. 7Meyer Levin203
  8. 8Pearl S. Buck184
  9. 9A. J. Cronin173
  10. 10Francoise Sagan166

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.