Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Elizabeth Bowen
Charting Mar 16, 1936 → Mar 6, 1955 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.25%
- week of Mar 30, 1936
- Career Power
- 70
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 31
- May 1948 – May 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 31
- May 1944 – May 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Mar 30, 1936
- Comebacks
- 2
- Mar 1949, after 13 quiet years · Feb 1955, after 6 quiet years
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
3 books · 70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Heat of the Day | #7 | 8 | 30.8 | ||
| The House in Paris | #5 | 3 | 22.9 | ||
| A World of Love | #10 | 5 | 16.0 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Elizabeth Bowen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1948 to May 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer566
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas324
- 3Irwin Shaw290
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes265
- 5A. J. Cronin203
- 6Elizabeth Goudge202
- 7Frank Yerby174
- 8Carl Sandburg165
- 9Betty Smith162
- 10Evelyn Waugh154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.