Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Frank Yerby

Charting Feb 24, 1946 → Feb 7, 1960 · 226 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 8.68%; week of Aug 3, 1947
Career Power: 1,330; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 261; September 1950 – September 1951
Peak Five Years: 905; January 1946 – January 1951
Top-five weeks: 67; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 226; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 12.64%; week of May 25, 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

14 books · 1,330 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 Vixens	#2May 1947	29	May 1947 – December 1947	226.6	226.6
The Foxes of Harrow	#5March 1946	45	February 1946 – February 1947	193.3	193.3
The Golden Hawk	#2June 1948	24	May 1948 – October 1948	179.7	179.7
Pride's Castle	#3June 1949	22	May 1949 – October 1949	160.3	160.3
A Woman Called Fancy	#4July 1951	22	May 1951 – October 1951	148.6	148.6
Floodtide	#3October 1950	20	September 1950 – January 1951	145.4	145.3
The Saracen Blade	#4May 1952	22	April 1952 – September 1952	137.9	137.9
Benton's Row	#9January 1955	14	December 1954 – March 1955	49.6	49.6
Fairoaks	#9October 1957	11	September 1957 – December 1957	38.4	38.4
The Devil's Laughter	#9November 1953	10	October 1953 – December 1953	34.3	34.3
Captain Rebel	#11October 1956	3	October 1956 – November 1956	7.8	7.8
The Serpent and the Staff	#13October 1958	2	October 1958 – November 1958	4.8	4.8
The Treasure of Pleasant Valley	#16November 1955	1	November 1955	1.8	1.8
Jarret's Jade	#16February 1960	1	February 1960	1.8	1.8

At their peak

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Frank Yerby's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1950 to September 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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