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Fred Gipson portraitFred Gipson

Charting Jan 30, 1949Apr 17, 1949 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.16%
week of Apr 17, 1949
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
19
April 1948 – April 1949
Peak Five Years
19
April 1944 – April 1949
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of Feb 13, 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 · 19 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
Hound-Dog Man#12818.9

At their peak

1948 in books

Fred Gipson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1948 to April 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Norman Mailer546
  2. 2Lloyd C. Douglas286
  3. 3Irwin Shaw276
  4. 4Frances Parkinson Keyes243
  5. 5Elizabeth Goudge235
  6. 6A. J. Cronin203
  7. 7Frank Yerby180
  8. 8Carl Sandburg165
  9. 9Betty Smith162
  10. 10Evelyn Waugh154

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.