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William Donohue Ellis

Charting Dec 28, 1952Jan 23, 1955 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.73%
week of Jan 11, 1953
Career Power
16
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
9
January 1954 – January 1955
Peak Five Years
16
January 1950 – January 1955
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Dec 28, 1952
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

2 books · 16 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
Jonathan Blair#1348.7
The Bounty Lands#1337.6

At their peak

1954 in books

William Donohue Ellis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1954 to January 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Morton Thompson626
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier339
  3. 3Irving Stone264
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell210
  5. 5Norah Lofts208
  6. 6John Steinbeck207
  7. 7James A. Michener202
  8. 8Frances Parkinson Keyes189
  9. 9Kenneth Dodson180
  10. 10Samuel Shellabarger177

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.