Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Hollister Noble
Charting Aug 15, 1948 → Oct 17, 1948 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.17%
- week of Oct 17, 1948
- Career Power
- 34
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 34
- October 1947 – October 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 34
- November 1943 – October 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Sep 5, 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 · 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woman with a Sword | #7 | 10 | 33.9 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Hollister Noble's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1947 to October 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ben Ames Williams385
- 2Ross Lockridge301
- 3Marcia Davenport285
- 4Norman Mailer283
- 5Elizabeth Goudge235
- 6Frances Parkinson Keyes218
- 7F. Van Wyck Mason212
- 8Agnes Sligh Turnbull201
- 9Frank Yerby190
- 10Thomas B. Costain180
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.