Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Edward McSorley
Charting Jul 7, 1946 → Aug 18, 1946 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.87%
- week of Aug 18, 1946
- Career Power
- 11
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 11
- August 1945 – August 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 11
- September 1941 – August 1946
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Jul 28, 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 · 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Own Kind | #12 | 5 | 11.0 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Edward McSorley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1945 to August 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain449
- 2Erich Maria Remarque283
- 3Daphne Du Maurier278
- 4James Ramsey Ullman245
- 5Taylor Caldwell234
- 6James Hilton204
- 7Sinclair Lewis175
- 8Kathleen Winsor171
- 9Mary Jane Ward167
- 10Adria Locke Langley161
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.