Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Maurice Samuel
Charting Mar 23, 1947 → May 18, 1947 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.96%
- week of May 18, 1947
- Career Power
- 28
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 28
- May 1946 – May 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 28
- June 1942 – May 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Mar 30, 1947
- 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 · 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web of Lucifer | #9 | 9 | 28.1 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Maurice Samuel's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1946 to May 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Taylor Caldwell402
- 2Frederic Wakeman369
- 3Russell Janney344
- 4John P. Marquand258
- 5Sholem Asch254
- 6Kenneth Roberts235
- 7Mary Jane Ward163
- 8Margery Sharp152
- 9John Jennings145
- 10Frank Yerby133
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.