Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William March
Charting May 30, 1954 → Aug 1, 1954 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.02%
- week of Jul 18, 1954
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- August 1953 – August 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- August 1949 – August 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Jul 4, 1954
- 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 · 15 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 Bad Seed | #13 | 7 | 15.0 |
At their peak
1953 in books →William March's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1953 to August 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson390
- 2Ernest K. Gann370
- 3A. J. Cronin366
- 4Samuel Shellabarger315
- 5Annemarie Selinko277
- 6James A. Michener273
- 7Leon Uris271
- 8James Hilton222
- 9Norah Lofts175
- 10Harnett T. Kane164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.