Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
George Howe
Charting Oct 2, 1949 → Dec 25, 1949 · 6 weeks with chart power
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- Peak Power
- 1.53%
- week of Oct 30, 1949
- Career Power
- 19
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 19
- January 1949 – December 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 19
- January 1945 – December 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Oct 23, 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call It Treason | #8 | 6 | 19.1 |
At their peak
1949 in books →George Howe's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1949 to December 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas509
- 2John P. Marquand400
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes316
- 4Edward Streeter252
- 5John O'Hara213
- 6Mika Waltari210
- 7Norman Mailer193
- 8Taylor Caldwell182
- 9Irwin Shaw178
- 10Frank Yerby160
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.