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Charting Oct 24, 1948 → Mar 13, 1949 · 21 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
7.30%
week of Jan 23, 1949
Career Power
165
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
165
March 1948 – March 1949
Peak Five Years
165
March 1944 – March 1949
Top-five weeks
12
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
21
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Nov 14, 1948
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 · 165 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
Remembrance Rock#321165.3

At their peak

1948 in books →

Carl Sandburg's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1948 to March 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Norman Mailer507
  2. 2Irwin Shaw239
  3. 3Elizabeth Goudge235
  4. 4Lloyd C. Douglas217
  5. 5Ross Lockridge215
  6. 6Frances Parkinson Keyes211
  7. 7A. J. Cronin203
  8. 8Frank Yerby180
  9. 9Carl Sandburg165
  10. 10Betty Smith162

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.