Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William Pearson
Charting Dec 6, 1959 → Dec 27, 1959 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.58%
- week of Dec 27, 1959
- Career Power
- 6
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 6
- January 1959 – December 1959
- Peak Five Years
- 6
- December 1954 – December 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Dec 27, 1959
- 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 · 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Fever in the Blood | #14 | 3 | 6.3 |
At their peak
1959 in books →William Pearson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1959 to December 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris662
- 2Boris Pasternak499
- 3Taylor Caldwell341
- 4Vladimir Nabokov316
- 5Eugene Burdick258
- 6William J. Lederer258
- 7Allen Drury252
- 8D.H. Lawrence251
- 9Paul Gallico200
- 10John O'Hara189
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.