Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jan Westcott
Charting Dec 1, 1946 → Jan 9, 1949 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.24%
- week of Jan 12, 1947
- Career Power
- 27
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 16
- January 1946 – January 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 27
- January 1944 – January 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Jan 9, 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
2 books · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Border Lord | #13 | 7 | 15.7 | ||
| Captain for Elizabeth | #11 | 5 | 11.2 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Jan Westcott's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1946 to January 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Taylor Caldwell442
- 2Frederic Wakeman367
- 3Erich Maria Remarque283
- 4Daphne Du Maurier278
- 5Thomas B. Costain200
- 6Mary Jane Ward195
- 7Frank Yerby189
- 8Evelyn Waugh158
- 9Russell Janney156
- 10Margery Sharp152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.