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Irwin Shaw

Charting Oct 24, 1948 → Jan 3, 1982 · 198 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
19481982
Longest reign 3 weeks (Nov–Dec 1948) · First crown Nov 1948

Peak Power: 9.92%; week of Feb 6, 1949
Career Power: 1,290; share-weeks
Crowns: 4; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 304; June 1948 – June 1949
Peak Five Years: 388; October 1946 – October 1951
Top-five weeks: 62; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 198; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Nov 7, 1948
Comebacks: 8; Aug 1951 · May 1956, after 5 quiet years · Mar 1960 · Nov 1970, after 10 quiet years · Jun 1973 · Mar 1976 · Dec 1977 · Feb 1980

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

10 books · 1,290 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 Young Lions	#1November 1948	34	October 1948 – June 1949	303.5	303.5
Rich Man, Poor Man	#3March 1971	33	October 1970 – May 1971	251.5	251.5
Beggarman, Thief	#4December 1977	23	October 1977 – April 1978	132.4	132.2
Lucy Crown	#3May 1956	18	April 1956 – August 1956	123.8	123.8
Two Weeks in Another Town	#3March 1960	17	February 1960 – June 1960	113.0	113.0
Evening in Byzantium	#5May 1973	13	April 1973 – July 1973	87.0	87.0
The Troubled Air	#5August 1951	16	June 1951 – October 1951	84.5	84.5
The Top of the Hill	#7February 1980	17	December 1979 – April 1980	77.4	77.4
Nightwork	#7February 1976	14	November 1975 – April 1976	68.1	68.1
Bread Upon the Waters	#6September 1981	13	September 1981 – January 1982	49.0	49.0

At their peak

1948 in books →

Irwin Shaw's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1948 to June 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.