Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

John P. Marquand

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

Peak Power: 13.61%; week of Sep 4, 1949
Career Power: 1,559; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 37; weeks as the top author

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; April 1939, September 1943, December 1946, April 1949, November 1958

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After decline	Jul 5, 1937	Apr 3, 1939	91	45	6.89%	2.82%
After absence	Oct 2, 1939	Sep 13, 1943	206	204	9.45%	4.09%
After decline	May 28, 1944	Dec 15, 1946	133	79	11.43%	4.82%
After decline	Jul 6, 1947	Apr 10, 1949	92	89	11.43%	4.14%
After absence	Jan 1, 1950	Nov 23, 1958	463	370	13.61%	4.83%

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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