Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
David Davidson
Charting Aug 24, 1947 → Feb 20, 1949 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.70%
- week of Aug 31, 1947
- Career Power
- 9
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 7
- September 1946 – August 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- March 1944 – February 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Aug 24, 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
2 books · 9 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 Steeper Cliff | #11 | 2 | 6.8 | ||
| The Hour of Truth | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1946 in books →David Davidson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1946 to August 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Russell Janney447
- 2Laura Z. Hobson310
- 3Kenneth Roberts299
- 4Taylor Caldwell298
- 5Sholem Asch258
- 6John P. Marquand258
- 7Frank Yerby232
- 8Frederic Wakeman208
- 9John Steinbeck162
- 10Pat Frank142
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.