Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Benedict Freedman
Charting Mar 23, 1947 → Sep 7, 1947 · 25 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.83%
- week of Jun 1, 1947
- Career Power
- 71
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 71
- September 1946 – September 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 71
- September 1942 – September 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 25
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Apr 6, 1947
- 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 · 71 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs. Mikewith Nancy Freedman | #5 | 25 | 71.5 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Benedict Freedman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1946 to September 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Russell Janney452
- 2Laura Z. Hobson321
- 3Kenneth Roberts299
- 4Taylor Caldwell285
- 5Sholem Asch258
- 6John P. Marquand258
- 7Frank Yerby235
- 8Frederic Wakeman193
- 9John Steinbeck162
- 10Sinclair Lewis148
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.