Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Margaret Kennedy
Charting Apr 9, 1950 → May 20, 1962 · 19 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.91%
- week of Jun 4, 1950
- Career Power
- 84
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 55
- June 1949 – June 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 81
- March 1950 – March 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 19
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Apr 30, 1950
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 1951
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
4 books · 84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Feast | #5 | 10 | 55.3 | ||
| Lucy Carmichael | #9 | 6 | 23.4 | ||
| The Forgotten Smile | #16 | 2 | 3.6 | ||
| Act of God | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Margaret Kennedy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1949 to June 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari494
- 2John O'Hara324
- 3Sholem Asch258
- 4Edward Streeter247
- 5John P. Marquand227
- 6Lloyd C. Douglas203
- 7Daphne Du Maurier201
- 8Taylor Caldwell198
- 9John Hersey176
- 10Samuel Shellabarger151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.