Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jay Walz
Charting May 28, 1950 → Aug 27, 1950 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.08%
- week of Jul 30, 1950
- Career Power
- 38
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 38
- September 1949 – August 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 38
- September 1945 – August 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Jun 11, 1950
- 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 · 38 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 Bizarre Sisters | #10 | 13 | 38.5 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Jay Walz's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1949 to August 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari554
- 2John O'Hara324
- 3John Hersey302
- 4Henry Morton Robinson294
- 5Sholem Asch258
- 6Gwen Bristow239
- 7Daphne Du Maurier201
- 8Taylor Caldwell179
- 9Kathleen Winsor159
- 10Samuel Shellabarger151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.