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Frederick Buechner portraitFrederick Buechner

Charting Jan 29, 1950Mar 19, 1950 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.99%
week of Mar 19, 1950
Career Power
27
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
27
March 1949 – March 1950
Peak Five Years
27
April 1945 – March 1950
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Feb 26, 1950
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 · 27 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
A Long Day's Dying#10827.4

At their peak

1949 in books

Frederick Buechner's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1949 to March 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John P. Marquand396
  2. 2Mika Waltari373
  3. 3Lloyd C. Douglas358
  4. 4John O'Hara312
  5. 5Edward Streeter254
  6. 6Sholem Asch231
  7. 7Taylor Caldwell198
  8. 8Frances Parkinson Keyes164
  9. 9Frank Yerby160
  10. 10F. Van Wyck Mason153

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.