Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gerald Warner Brace
Charting Sep 28, 1947 → Sep 28, 1952 · 27 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.94%
- week of Feb 1, 1948
- Career Power
- 114
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 109
- March 1947 – March 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 110
- October 1947 – September 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 27
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Jan 25, 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
2 books · 114 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Garretson Chronicle | #5 | 25 | 109.3 | ||
| The Spire | #14 | 2 | 4.5 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Gerald Warner Brace's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1947 to March 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Laura Z. Hobson390
- 2Thomas B. Costain348
- 3Ben Ames Williams333
- 4Marcia Davenport228
- 5Frank Yerby227
- 6Russell Janney218
- 7Willard Motley216
- 8Sinclair Lewis193
- 9Kenneth Roberts186
- 10Frances Parkinson Keyes174
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.