Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Charles Jackson
Charting Feb 27, 1944 → Oct 29, 1967 · 29 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.82%
- week of Apr 9, 1944
- Career Power
- 199
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 82
- May 1943 – April 1944
- Peak Five Years
- 157
- February 1942 – January 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 11
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 29
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Mar 26, 1944
- Comebacks
- 2
- Nov 1946 · Oct 1967, after 20 quiet years
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
3 books · 199 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 Lost Weekend | #2 | 8 | 81.9 | ||
| The Fall of Valor | #3 | 13 | 74.7 | ||
| A Second-Hand Life | #6 | 8 | 42.1 |
At their peak
1943 in books →Charles Jackson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1943 to April 1944. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas640
- 2Betty Smith494
- 3John P. Marquand343
- 4Marcia Davenport239
- 5Sholem Asch183
- 6Daphne Du Maurier168
- 7Ilka Chase109
- 8Xavier Herbert96
- 9Howard Fast93
- 10John Hersey87
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.