Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mary Lasswell
Charting Dec 11, 1949 → Feb 10, 1952 · 28 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.82%
- week of Mar 5, 1950
- Career Power
- 132
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 98
- May 1949 – April 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 132
- February 1947 – February 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 28
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Dec 25, 1949
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jan 1952
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
2 books · 132 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One on the House | #5 | 18 | 98.3 | ||
| Wait for the Wagon | #10 | 10 | 33.5 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Mary Lasswell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1949 to April 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari431
- 2John P. Marquand328
- 3John O'Hara324
- 4Lloyd C. Douglas291
- 5Edward Streeter254
- 6Sholem Asch252
- 7Taylor Caldwell198
- 8Daphne Du Maurier175
- 9Frank Yerby160
- 10Tom Lea150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.