Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Marghanita Laski
Charting Jan 22, 1950 → Feb 12, 1950 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.54%
- week of Feb 12, 1950
- Career Power
- 6
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 6
- February 1949 – February 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 6
- February 1945 – February 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Feb 12, 1950
- 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 · 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Boy Lost | #15 | 3 | 5.7 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Marghanita Laski's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1949 to February 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas431
- 2John P. Marquand400
- 3Mika Waltari311
- 4John O'Hara280
- 5Edward Streeter254
- 6Frances Parkinson Keyes228
- 7Taylor Caldwell198
- 8Sholem Asch195
- 9Frank Yerby160
- 10F. Van Wyck Mason153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.