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John P. Marquand

Charting Jan 11, 1937 → Feb 15, 1959 · 162 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
37 crowns
19371959
Longest reign 22 weeks (Apr–Sep 1949) · First crown Apr 1939

Peak Power: 13.61%; week of Sep 4, 1949
Career Power: 1,559; share-weeks
Crowns: 37; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 400; November 1948 – November 1949
Peak Five Years: 665; November 1944 – November 1949
Top-five weeks: 104; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 162; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Apr 3, 1939
Comebacks: 5; Apr 1939 · Sep 1943 · Dec 1946 · Apr 1949 · Nov 1958, after 9 quiet years

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

9 books · 1,559 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
Point of No Return	#1April 1949	34	March 1949 – November 1949	400.5	400.5
So Little Time	#1September 1943	28	August 1943 – March 1944	343.2	343.2
B.F.'s DAUGHTER	#1December 1946	24	November 1946 – May 1947	257.8	257.8
Wickford Point	#1April 1939	16	March 1939 – July 1939	187.3	187.3
The Late George Apley	#2March 1937	15	January 1937 – May 1938	134.2	134.2
Women and Thomas Harrow	#4November 1958	17	October 1958 – February 1959	121.0	121.0
Life at Happy Knoll	#6August 1957	13	July 1957 – October 1957	56.0	56.0
Stopover: Tokyo	#8February 1957	12	February 1957 – May 1957	51.9	51.9
Repent in Haste	#13December 1945	3	December 1945 – January 1946	6.7	6.7

At their peak

1948 in books →

John P. Marquand's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1948 to November 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.