Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Horne Burns
Charting Aug 10, 1947 → Jun 12, 1949 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.82%
- week of Jun 12, 1949
- Career Power
- 32
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 27
- June 1948 – June 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 32
- June 1944 – June 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of May 1, 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 · 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucifer with a Book | #9 | 8 | 27.0 | ||
| The Gallery | #13 | 2 | 4.8 |
At their peak
1948 in books →John Horne Burns's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1948 to June 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer560
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas387
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes309
- 4Irwin Shaw304
- 5A. J. Cronin203
- 6John P. Marquand174
- 7Carl Sandburg165
- 8Betty Smith162
- 9Evelyn Waugh154
- 10Frank Yerby153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.