Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Harry Sylvester
Charting Jul 13, 1947 → Jul 20, 1947 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.38%
- week of Jul 20, 1947
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- July 1946 – July 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- August 1942 – July 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Jul 13, 1947
- 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 · 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon Gaffney | #16 | 2 | 3.6 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Harry Sylvester's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1946 to July 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Russell Janney414
- 2Taylor Caldwell354
- 3Frederic Wakeman295
- 4Kenneth Roberts294
- 5Sholem Asch258
- 6John P. Marquand258
- 7Laura Z. Hobson233
- 8Frank Yerby203
- 9John Steinbeck162
- 10John Jennings145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.