Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Guy McCrone
Charting Dec 28, 1947 → Jun 12, 1949 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.44%
- week of Mar 28, 1948
- Career Power
- 66
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 63
- April 1947 – March 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 66
- June 1944 – June 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Jan 11, 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 · 66 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.
At their peak
1947 in books →Guy McCrone's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1947 to March 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Laura Z. Hobson377
- 2Ben Ames Williams354
- 3Thomas B. Costain348
- 4Marcia Davenport246
- 5Frank Yerby227
- 6Willard Motley216
- 7Russell Janney196
- 8Sinclair Lewis193
- 9Frances Parkinson Keyes186
- 10Kenneth Roberts157
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.