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Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Charting Nov 23, 1947Jan 11, 1953 · 75 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Gown of Glory#337291.2
The Bishop's Mantle#538200.7

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:

  1. 1Herman Wouk659
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier375
  3. 3Nicholas Monsarrat322
  4. 4Thomas B. Costain300
  5. 5Howard Spring292
  6. 6Agnes Sligh Turnbull291
  7. 7John Steinbeck201
  8. 8Barnaby Conrad158
  9. 9Edna Ferber147
  10. 10Ernest Hemingway141

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.