Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Childers
Charting Jul 17, 1949 → Sep 18, 1949 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.02%
- week of Aug 28, 1949
- Career Power
- 13
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 13
- September 1948 – September 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 13
- October 1944 – September 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Aug 14, 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 · 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tomorrow We Reapwith James Street | #8 | 8 | 13.3 |
At their peak
1948 in books →James Childers's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1948 to September 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas516
- 2Norman Mailer377
- 3John P. Marquand364
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes344
- 5Irwin Shaw304
- 6Carl Sandburg165
- 7Edward Streeter159
- 8Frank Yerby155
- 9F. Van Wyck Mason153
- 10Tom Lea146
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.