Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
George R. Stewart
Charting Apr 25, 1948 → Jul 4, 1948 · 11 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.27%
- week of Jun 13, 1948
- Career Power
- 36
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 36
- July 1947 – July 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 36
- July 1943 – July 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 11
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of May 23, 1948
- 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 · 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire | #8 | 11 | 35.8 |
At their peak
1947 in books →George R. Stewart's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1947 to July 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ben Ames Williams427
- 2Thomas B. Costain348
- 3Marcia Davenport285
- 4Ross Lockridge278
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes218
- 6Frank Yerby217
- 7F. Van Wyck Mason205
- 8Willard Motley188
- 9Laura Z. Hobson187
- 10Agnes Sligh Turnbull185
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.