Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Zoe Oldenbourg
Charting Jun 27, 1948 → Mar 27, 1955 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.26%
- week of Aug 1, 1948
- Career Power
- 58
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 29
- April 1954 – March 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 29
- April 1950 – March 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Jul 25, 1948
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 1955, after 6 quiet years
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 · 58 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 Cornerstone | #10 | 10 | 29.2 | ||
| The World Is Not Enough | #7 | 7 | 28.6 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Zoe Oldenbourg's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1954 to March 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson547
- 2Irving Stone373
- 3Daphne Du Maurier344
- 4Hamilton Basso271
- 5Anya Seton230
- 6Mac Hyman216
- 7Taylor Caldwell210
- 8Norah Lofts208
- 9John Steinbeck207
- 10Frances Parkinson Keyes189
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.