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Frances Gaither

Charting Mar 27, 1949Jun 19, 1949 · 12 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Double Muscadine#71245.2

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:

  1. 1Norman Mailer549
  2. 2Lloyd C. Douglas400
  3. 3Frances Parkinson Keyes318
  4. 4Irwin Shaw304
  5. 5A. J. Cronin203
  6. 6John P. Marquand188
  7. 7Carl Sandburg165
  8. 8Betty Smith162
  9. 9Evelyn Waugh154
  10. 10Frank Yerby152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.