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Fritz Peters

Charting Mar 25, 1951Apr 1, 1951 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.40%
week of Apr 1, 1951
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
April 1950 – April 1951
Peak Five Years
4
April 1946 – April 1951
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Apr 1, 1951
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 · 4 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
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At their peak

1950 in books

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

  1. 1Henry Morton Robinson621
  2. 2Mika Waltari348
  3. 3Gwen Bristow317
  4. 4John Hersey308
  5. 5Budd Schulberg266
  6. 6Ernest Hemingway226
  7. 7Frances Parkinson Keyes215
  8. 8Robert Penn Warren175
  9. 9Kathleen Winsor171
  10. 10Thomas B. Costain148

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.