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Frederic Wakeman

Charting Jun 16, 1946Jan 6, 1957 · 38 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    19 crowns

    19461957

    Longest reign 19 weeks (Jul–Nov 1946) · First crown Jul 1946

Peak Power
13.38%
week of Nov 17, 1946
Career Power
385
share-weeks
Crowns
19
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
369
January 1946 – January 1947
Peak Five Years
378
December 1942 – November 1947
Top-five weeks
26
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
38
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jul 14, 1946
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

3 books · 385 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
The Hucksters#132368.8
The Saxon Charm#1039.0
Deluxe Tour#1237.1

At their peak

1946 in books

Frederic Wakeman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1946 to January 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Taylor Caldwell446
  2. 2Frederic Wakeman369
  3. 3Erich Maria Remarque283
  4. 4Daphne Du Maurier273
  5. 5Mary Jane Ward195
  6. 6Frank Yerby191
  7. 7Thomas B. Costain185
  8. 8Russell Janney167
  9. 9Margery Sharp152
  10. 10Evelyn Waugh152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.