Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Cain
Charting Feb 16, 1947 → Mar 16, 1947 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.83%
- week of Mar 16, 1947
- Career Power
- 9
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 9
- March 1946 – March 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- March 1942 – March 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Mar 16, 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 · 9 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 Butterfly | #12 | 4 | 9.2 |
At their peak
1946 in books →James Cain's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1946 to March 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Taylor Caldwell451
- 2Frederic Wakeman369
- 3Russell Janney253
- 4John P. Marquand223
- 5Sholem Asch212
- 6Erich Maria Remarque210
- 7Mary Jane Ward195
- 8Frank Yerby181
- 9Daphne Du Maurier161
- 10Margery Sharp152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.