Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Merle Miller
Charting Feb 8, 1948 → Jan 16, 1955 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.10%
- week of Apr 18, 1948
- Career Power
- 51
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 31
- April 1947 – April 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 31
- May 1943 – April 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Mar 7, 1948
- Comebacks
- 1
- Dec 1954, after 6 quiet years
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 · 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| That Winter | #7 | 9 | 31.4 | ||
| Reunion | #11 | 7 | 19.3 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Merle Miller's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1947 to April 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ben Ames Williams383
- 2Thomas B. Costain348
- 3Laura Z. Hobson345
- 4Marcia Davenport269
- 5Frank Yerby227
- 6Willard Motley219
- 7Frances Parkinson Keyes201
- 8Sinclair Lewis193
- 9Russell Janney166
- 10Ross Lockridge149
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.