Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Idwal Jones
Charting Jun 22, 1947 → Aug 10, 1947 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.96%
- week of Aug 10, 1947
- Career Power
- 27
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 27
- August 1946 – August 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 27
- August 1942 – August 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- 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 · 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vermillion | #10 | 8 | 27.0 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Idwal Jones's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1946 to August 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Russell Janney433
- 2Taylor Caldwell331
- 3Kenneth Roberts299
- 4Laura Z. Hobson276
- 5Sholem Asch258
- 6John P. Marquand258
- 7Frederic Wakeman251
- 8Frank Yerby226
- 9John Steinbeck162
- 10John Jennings145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.