Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Edison Marshall
Charting Nov 6, 1949 → Dec 31, 1950 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.29%
- week of Dec 18, 1949
- Career Power
- 25
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 23
- February 1949 – January 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 25
- January 1946 – December 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Nov 20, 1949
- 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 · 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gypsy Sixpence | #11 | 9 | 22.9 | ||
| The Infinite Woman | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Edison Marshall's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1949 to January 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas458
- 2John P. Marquand400
- 3Mika Waltari282
- 4John O'Hara265
- 5Edward Streeter254
- 6Frances Parkinson Keyes253
- 7Taylor Caldwell198
- 8Sholem Asch175
- 9Frank Yerby160
- 10F. Van Wyck Mason153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.