Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Agatha Young
Charting Aug 29, 1948 → Aug 29, 1948 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.26%
- week of Aug 29, 1948
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- September 1947 – August 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- September 1943 – August 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of Aug 29, 1948
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light in the Sky | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Agatha Young's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1947 to August 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ben Ames Williams430
- 2Ross Lockridge301
- 3Marcia Davenport285
- 4Thomas B. Costain282
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes218
- 6Elizabeth Goudge215
- 7Frank Yerby212
- 8F. Van Wyck Mason212
- 9Agnes Sligh Turnbull199
- 10Norman Mailer187
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.