Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Arthur Meeker
Charting Feb 2, 1942 → Jul 31, 1949 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.21%
- week of Jul 17, 1949
- Career Power
- 74
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 67
- August 1948 – July 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 67
- August 1944 – July 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Feb 2, 1942
- 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
2 books · 74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Avenue | #6 | 12 | 67.1 | ||
| The Ivory Mischief | #6 | 1 | 7.3 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Arthur Meeker's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1948 to July 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer475
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas469
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes337
- 4Irwin Shaw304
- 5John P. Marquand275
- 6A. J. Cronin203
- 7Carl Sandburg165
- 8Betty Smith162
- 9Thomas B. Costain145
- 10Frank Yerby145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.