Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Hope Muntz
Charting Apr 3, 1949 → Apr 24, 1949 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.72%
- week of Apr 24, 1949
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- May 1948 – April 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- May 1944 – April 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Apr 10, 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 · 8 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 Golden Warrior | #15 | 4 | 7.8 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Hope Muntz's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1948 to April 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer553
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas299
- 3Irwin Shaw280
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes249
- 5Elizabeth Goudge226
- 6A. J. Cronin203
- 7Frank Yerby180
- 8Carl Sandburg165
- 9Betty Smith162
- 10Evelyn Waugh154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.