Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Frances Gaither
Charting Mar 27, 1949 → Jun 19, 1949 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.81%
- week of May 29, 1949
- Career Power
- 45
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 45
- June 1948 – June 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 45
- July 1944 – June 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of May 1, 1949
- 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 · 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Double Muscadine | #7 | 12 | 45.2 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Frances Gaither's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1948 to June 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer549
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas400
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes318
- 4Irwin Shaw304
- 5A. J. Cronin203
- 6John P. Marquand188
- 7Carl Sandburg165
- 8Betty Smith162
- 9Evelyn Waugh154
- 10Frank Yerby152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.