Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Eric Hodgins
Charting Jan 26, 1947 → Apr 6, 1947 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.62%
- week of Mar 9, 1947
- Career Power
- 25
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 25
- April 1946 – April 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 25
- April 1942 – April 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Mar 2, 1947
- 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 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | #9 | 8 | 25.0 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Eric Hodgins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1946 to April 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Taylor Caldwell451
- 2Frederic Wakeman369
- 3Russell Janney286
- 4John P. Marquand245
- 5Sholem Asch230
- 6Mary Jane Ward195
- 7Erich Maria Remarque166
- 8Frank Yerby159
- 9Kenneth Roberts157
- 10Margery Sharp152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.