Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William E. Barrett
Charting Feb 18, 1951 → Feb 21, 1954 · 27 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.65%
- week of Jun 3, 1951
- Career Power
- 79
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 51
- June 1950 – June 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 79
- February 1949 – February 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 27
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Apr 15, 1951
- Comebacks
- 1
- Dec 1953
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 · 79 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 Left Hand of God | #8 | 16 | 51.3 | ||
| The Shadows of the Images | #10 | 11 | 27.9 |
At their peak
1950 in books →William E. Barrett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1950 to June 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Henry Morton Robinson512
- 2Budd Schulberg346
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes318
- 4Mika Waltari260
- 5Gwen Bristow230
- 6Ernest Hemingway226
- 7John Hersey189
- 8Robert Penn Warren175
- 9James Jones174
- 10Frank Yerby157
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.