Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mildred Jordan
Charting Sep 22, 1941 → Aug 15, 1948 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.38%
- week of Aug 15, 1948
- Career Power
- 53
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 32
- August 1947 – August 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 32
- August 1943 – August 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Sep 22, 1941
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1948, after 7 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 · 53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asylum for the Queen | #9 | 9 | 31.6 | ||
| One Red Rose Forever | #6 | 3 | 21.8 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Mildred Jordan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1947 to August 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ben Ames Williams427
- 2Thomas B. Costain311
- 3Ross Lockridge301
- 4Marcia Davenport285
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes218
- 6Frank Yerby213
- 7F. Van Wyck Mason212
- 8Elizabeth Goudge202
- 9Agnes Sligh Turnbull199
- 10Norman Mailer158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.