Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Margaret Irwin
Charting Jan 23, 1949 → Feb 6, 1949 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.85%
- week of Feb 6, 1949
- Career Power
- 9
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 9
- February 1948 – February 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- February 1944 – February 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Jan 23, 1949
- 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 · 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth, Captive Princess | #12 | 3 | 8.7 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Margaret Irwin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1948 to February 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer467
- 2Ross Lockridge273
- 3Elizabeth Goudge235
- 4F. Van Wyck Mason212
- 5A. J. Cronin203
- 6Irwin Shaw191
- 7Frances Parkinson Keyes191
- 8Frank Yerby180
- 9Betty Smith162
- 10Ben Ames Williams159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.