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Yael Dayan

Charting Oct 18, 1959 → Oct 18, 1959 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.23%
week of Oct 18, 1959
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
October 1958 – October 1959
Peak Five Years
2
October 1954 – October 1959
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Oct 18, 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 · 2 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
New Face in the Mirror#1512.1

At their peak

1958 in books →

Yael Dayan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1958 to October 1959. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Boris Pasternak620
  2. 2Leon Uris603
  3. 3Vladimir Nabokov452
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell250
  5. 5D.H. Lawrence237
  6. 6Eugene Burdick232
  7. 7William J. Lederer232
  8. 8Patrick Dennis198
  9. 9John O'Hara198
  10. 10Paul Gallico187

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.