Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ludwig Bemelmans
Charting Sep 7, 1947 → Nov 17, 1957 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.26%
- week of Nov 9, 1947
- Career Power
- 82
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 70
- December 1946 – November 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 76
- December 1944 – December 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Oct 12, 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 · 82 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dirty Eddie | #4 | 12 | 69.8 | ||
| The Eye of God | #14 | 3 | 6.6 | ||
| The Woman of My Life | #13 | 2 | 5.2 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Ludwig Bemelmans's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1946 to November 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Laura Z. Hobson391
- 2Russell Janney382
- 3Kenneth Roberts299
- 4Thomas B. Costain245
- 5John P. Marquand236
- 6Frank Yerby235
- 7Sholem Asch212
- 8Sinclair Lewis193
- 9Willard Motley172
- 10John Steinbeck162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.