Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Sedges
Charting Nov 27, 1949 → Dec 4, 1949 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.40%
- week of Dec 4, 1949
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- December 1948 – December 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- December 1944 – December 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Nov 27, 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
1 book · 4 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 Long Love | #15 | 2 | 3.9 |
At their peak
1948 in books →John Sedges's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1948 to December 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas537
- 2John P. Marquand400
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes344
- 4Edward Streeter243
- 5Norman Mailer225
- 6Irwin Shaw218
- 7John O'Hara180
- 8Mika Waltari166
- 9Taylor Caldwell163
- 10Frank Yerby160
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.