Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Margaret Carpenter
Charting Apr 26, 1943 → May 10, 1943 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.63%
- week of May 10, 1943
- Career Power
- 17
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 17
- May 1942 – May 1943
- Peak Five Years
- 17
- May 1938 – May 1943
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Apr 26, 1943
- 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 · 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experiment Perilous | #5 | 2 | 16.7 |
At their peak
1942 in books →Margaret Carpenter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1942 to May 1943. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Franz Werfel477
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas344
- 3Marcia Davenport341
- 4Louis Bromfield236
- 5Rachel Field233
- 6Nancy Hale228
- 7Helen MacInnes135
- 8William Saroyan115
- 9John Steinbeck105
- 10Dorothy Macardle73
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.