Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alfred Hayes
Charting Apr 10, 1949 → May 8, 1949 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.90%
- week of May 8, 1949
- Career Power
- 10
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 10
- May 1948 – May 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 10
- May 1944 – May 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Apr 24, 1949
- 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 · 10 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 Girl on the Via Flaminia | #12 | 4 | 9.8 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Alfred Hayes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1948 to May 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer566
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas324
- 3Irwin Shaw290
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes265
- 5A. J. Cronin203
- 6Elizabeth Goudge202
- 7Frank Yerby174
- 8Carl Sandburg165
- 9Betty Smith162
- 10Evelyn Waugh154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.