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Laura Z. Hobson

Charting Mar 16, 1947Nov 25, 1951 · 42 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    14 crowns

    19471951

    Longest reign 10 weeks (Apr–Jun 1947) · First crown Apr 1947

Peak Power
12.67%
week of Aug 10, 1947
Career Power
413
share-weeks
Crowns
14
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
393
December 1946 – December 1947
Peak Five Years
413
December 1946 – November 1951
Top-five weeks
30
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
42
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Apr 27, 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

3 books · 413 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Gentleman's Agreement#136392.8
The Other Father#9517.8
The Celebrity#1512.1

At their peak

1946 in books

Laura Z. Hobson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1946 to December 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Laura Z. Hobson393
  2. 2Russell Janney371
  3. 3Kenneth Roberts299
  4. 4Thomas B. Costain256
  5. 5Frank Yerby232
  6. 6John P. Marquand222
  7. 7Sholem Asch200
  8. 8Sinclair Lewis193
  9. 9Willard Motley177
  10. 10John Steinbeck162

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.