Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Edmund Wilson
Charting Apr 14, 1946 → Sep 1, 1946 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.29%
- week of Jun 30, 1946
- Career Power
- 51
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 51
- September 1945 – September 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 51
- September 1941 – September 1946
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of May 26, 1946
- 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 · 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memoirs of Hecate County | #7 | 15 | 51.4 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Edmund Wilson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1945 to September 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain449
- 2Erich Maria Remarque283
- 3Daphne Du Maurier278
- 4Taylor Caldwell260
- 5James Ramsey Ullman245
- 6Mary Jane Ward180
- 7James Hilton179
- 8Sinclair Lewis175
- 9Kathleen Winsor171
- 10Frederic Wakeman161
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.