Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Martin Boyd
Charting Mar 21, 1948 → May 9, 1948 · 8 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucinda Brayford | #6 | 8 | 40.0 |
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:
- 1Ben Ames Williams408
- 2Thomas B. Costain348
- 3Laura Z. Hobson301
- 4Marcia Davenport282
- 5Frank Yerby226
- 6Willard Motley221
- 7Frances Parkinson Keyes212
- 8Sinclair Lewis193
- 9Ross Lockridge189
- 10F. Van Wyck Mason149
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.