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Agnes Newton Keith

Charting Feb 22, 1948Feb 22, 1948 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.20%
week of Feb 22, 1948
Career Power
2
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
2
March 1947 – February 1948
Peak Five Years
2
March 1943 – February 1948
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
1.82%
week of Feb 22, 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Three Came Home#1611.8

At their peak

1947 in books

Agnes Newton Keith's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1947 to February 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Laura Z. Hobson393
  2. 2Thomas B. Costain344
  3. 3Ben Ames Williams298
  4. 4Russell Janney251
  5. 5Kenneth Roberts229
  6. 6Frank Yerby227
  7. 7Willard Motley214
  8. 8Marcia Davenport193
  9. 9Sinclair Lewis193
  10. 10John Steinbeck182

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.