Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Kathryn Forbes
Charting Dec 21, 1947 → Jan 18, 1948 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.53%
- week of Jan 18, 1948
- Career Power
- 6
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 6
- January 1947 – January 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 6
- February 1943 – January 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Dec 21, 1947
- 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 · 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transfer Point | #15 | 3 | 6.3 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Kathryn Forbes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1947 to January 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Laura Z. Hobson393
- 2Thomas B. Costain314
- 3Russell Janney305
- 4Kenneth Roberts297
- 5Ben Ames Williams229
- 6Frank Yerby229
- 7Willard Motley203
- 8Sinclair Lewis193
- 9John Steinbeck177
- 10John P. Marquand134
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.