Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
A.B. Guthrie Jr
Charting May 25, 1947 → Feb 17, 1957 · 50 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.14%
- week of Jan 22, 1950
- Career Power
- 290
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 147
- June 1949 – June 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 264
- July 1945 – June 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 17
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 50
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Jun 8, 1947
- Comebacks
- 1
- Nov 1949
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
3 books · 290 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 Way West | #4 | 20 | 146.6 | ||
| The Big Sky | #4 | 21 | 117.2 | ||
| These Thousand Hills | #10 | 9 | 25.7 |
At their peak
1949 in books →A.B. Guthrie Jr's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1949 to June 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari502
- 2John O'Hara324
- 3Sholem Asch258
- 4Edward Streeter243
- 5John P. Marquand212
- 6Daphne Du Maurier201
- 7Taylor Caldwell198
- 8Lloyd C. Douglas190
- 9John Hersey188
- 10Samuel Shellabarger151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.