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Martin Boyd portraitMartin Boyd

Charting Mar 21, 1948May 9, 1948 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.87%
week of May 2, 1948
Career Power
40
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
40
May 1947 – May 1948
Peak Five Years
40
May 1943 – May 1948
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Mar 28, 1948
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 · 40 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.

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At their peak

1947 in books

Martin Boyd's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1947 to May 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Ben Ames Williams408
  2. 2Thomas B. Costain348
  3. 3Laura Z. Hobson301
  4. 4Marcia Davenport282
  5. 5Frank Yerby226
  6. 6Willard Motley221
  7. 7Frances Parkinson Keyes212
  8. 8Sinclair Lewis193
  9. 9Ross Lockridge189
  10. 10F. Van Wyck Mason149

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.