Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ira Wolfert
Charting Jan 23, 1949 → Feb 27, 1949 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.90%
- week of Feb 27, 1949
- Career Power
- 11
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 11
- March 1948 – February 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 11
- March 1944 – February 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Jan 23, 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act of Love | #13 | 5 | 11.2 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Ira Wolfert's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1948 to February 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer490
- 2Ross Lockridge239
- 3Elizabeth Goudge235
- 4Irwin Shaw220
- 5A. J. Cronin203
- 6Frances Parkinson Keyes202
- 7F. Van Wyck Mason190
- 8Lloyd C. Douglas188
- 9Frank Yerby180
- 10Betty Smith162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.