Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dodie Smith
Charting Nov 14, 1948 → Mar 27, 1949 · 20 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.70%
- week of Feb 27, 1949
- Career Power
- 81
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 81
- April 1948 – March 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 81
- April 1944 – March 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 20
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Dec 26, 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 · 81 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I Capture the Castle | #7 | 20 | 81.2 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Dodie Smith's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1948 to March 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer525
- 2Irwin Shaw255
- 3Lloyd C. Douglas246
- 4Elizabeth Goudge235
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes225
- 6A. J. Cronin203
- 7Ross Lockridge190
- 8Frank Yerby180
- 9Carl Sandburg165
- 10Betty Smith162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.