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Harriette Simpson Arnow

Charting Jun 19, 1949 → Aug 14, 1949 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.82%
week of Aug 14, 1949
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
11
August 1948 – August 1949
Peak Five Years
11
August 1944 – August 1949
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Aug 14, 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 · 11 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

1948 in books →

Harriette Simpson Arnow's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1948 to August 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Lloyd C. Douglas486
  2. 2Norman Mailer446
  3. 3Frances Parkinson Keyes342
  4. 4John P. Marquand304
  5. 5Irwin Shaw304
  6. 6A. J. Cronin186
  7. 7Carl Sandburg165
  8. 8Betty Smith162
  9. 9Frank Yerby148
  10. 10F. Van Wyck Mason148

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.