Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Charting Nov 23, 1947 → Jan 11, 1953 · 75 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.95%
- week of Aug 10, 1952
- Career Power
- 492
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 291
- January 1952 – January 1953
- Peak Five Years
- 482
- November 1947 – November 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 30
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 75
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Apr 20, 1952
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 1952
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 · 492 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 Gown of Glory | #3 | 37 | 291.2 | ||
| The Bishop's Mantle | #5 | 38 | 200.7 |
At their peak
1952 in books →Agnes Sligh Turnbull's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1952 to January 1953. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk659
- 2Daphne Du Maurier375
- 3Nicholas Monsarrat322
- 4Thomas B. Costain300
- 5Howard Spring292
- 6Agnes Sligh Turnbull291
- 7John Steinbeck201
- 8Barnaby Conrad158
- 9Edna Ferber147
- 10Ernest Hemingway141
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.