Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Joseph George Hitrec
Charting Apr 4, 1948 → May 16, 1948 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.02%
- week of May 16, 1948
- Career Power
- 26
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 26
- May 1947 – May 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 26
- May 1943 – May 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Apr 25, 1948
- 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 · 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Son of the Moon | #9 | 7 | 25.8 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Joseph George Hitrec's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1947 to May 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ben Ames Williams414
- 2Thomas B. Costain348
- 3Laura Z. Hobson287
- 4Marcia Davenport285
- 5Frank Yerby227
- 6Willard Motley221
- 7Frances Parkinson Keyes212
- 8Ross Lockridge204
- 9Sinclair Lewis193
- 10F. Van Wyck Mason158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.