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Eudora Welty

Charting May 12, 1946 → Mar 29, 1981 · 20 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 2.18%; week of Aug 13, 1972
Career Power: 63; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 29; August 1971 – August 1972
Peak Five Years: 29; August 1967 – August 1972
Top-five weeks: 0; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 20; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 6.32%; week of Jul 2, 1972
Comebacks: 1; Jul 1972, after 26 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

5 books · 63 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 Optimist's Daughter	#7July 1972	6	June 1972 – August 1972	29.1	29.1
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty	#13January 1981	6	January 1981 – March 1981	13.8	13.8
Delta Wedding	#12June 1946	5	May 1946 – June 1946	13.5	13.5
The Golden Apples	#13October 1949	2	September 1949 – October 1949	4.6	4.6
The Ponder Heart	#15February 1954	1	February 1954	2.1	2.1

At their peak

1971 in books →

Eudora Welty's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1971 to August 1972. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.