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David Garth

Charting Jun 17, 1951Jul 15, 1951 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.34%
week of Jul 15, 1951
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
July 1950 – July 1951
Peak Five Years
4
July 1946 – July 1951
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Jun 17, 1951
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 · 4 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
Fire on the Wind#1523.9

At their peak

1950 in books

David Garth's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1950 to July 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Henry Morton Robinson425
  2. 2Budd Schulberg357
  3. 3Frances Parkinson Keyes349
  4. 4James Jones261
  5. 5Ernest Hemingway226
  6. 6Mika Waltari217
  7. 7Frank Yerby206
  8. 8Gwen Bristow174
  9. 9Robert Penn Warren156
  10. 10Herman Wouk149

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.