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Dorothy Clarke Wilson

Charting Dec 11, 1949Jan 22, 1950 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.07%
week of Jan 22, 1950
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
12
January 1949 – January 1950
Peak Five Years
12
February 1945 – January 1950
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of Jan 1, 1950
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 · 12 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
Prince of Egypt#12512.5

At their peak

1949 in books

Dorothy Clarke Wilson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1949 to January 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Lloyd C. Douglas470
  2. 2John P. Marquand400
  3. 3Mika Waltari268
  4. 4Frances Parkinson Keyes266
  5. 5John O'Hara257
  6. 6Edward Streeter254
  7. 7Taylor Caldwell198
  8. 8Sholem Asch163
  9. 9Frank Yerby160
  10. 10Norman Mailer156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.