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F. Van Wyck Mason

Charting Dec 5, 1938 → Oct 15, 1961 · 142 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
15 crowns
19381961
Longest reign 10 weeks (Jun–Aug 1940) · First crown Jun 1940

Peak Power: 10.44%; week of Sep 2, 1940
Career Power: 1,004; share-weeks
Crowns: 15; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 212; August 1947 – August 1948
Peak Five Years: 529; October 1946 – October 1951
Top-five weeks: 65; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 142; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Jun 10, 1940
Comebacks: 3; Jun 1940 · Mar 1948, after 7 quiet years · May 1951

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

12 books · 1,004 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
Eagle in the Sky	#1March 1948	23	February 1948 – August 1948	211.9	211.9
Stars on the Sea	#1June 1940	16	June 1940 – September 1940	206.2	206.2
Proud New Flags	#3May 1951	22	May 1951 – October 1951	164.2	164.2
Cutlass Empire	#4April 1949	22	March 1949 – August 1949	153.4	153.4
Three Harbours	#3January 1939	15	December 1938 – March 1939	137.7	137.7
Blue Hurricane	#10December 1954	13	November 1954 – February 1955	41.5	41.5
Manila Galleon	#10April 1961	12	March 1961 – June 1961	35.8	35.8
The Young Titan	#11August 1959	12	July 1959 – October 1959	32.5	32.5
Our Valiant Few	#13December 1956	4	November 1956 – December 1956	8.8	8.8
Rivers of Glory	#5January 1943	1	January 1943	8.3	8.3
Silver Leopard	#16November 1955	1	November 1955	1.8	1.8
The Sea 'Venture	#16October 1961	1	October 1961	1.8	1.8

At their peak

1947 in books →

F. Van Wyck Mason's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1947 to August 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.