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Mildred Walker

Charting Mar 9, 1947Jun 10, 1951 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.44%
week of Apr 13, 1947
Career Power
23
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
21
May 1946 – May 1947
Peak Five Years
23
June 1946 – June 1951
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of Mar 9, 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

2 books · 23 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Quarry#11821.3
The Southwest Corner#1512.1

At their peak

1946 in books

Mildred Walker's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1946 to May 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Taylor Caldwell417
  2. 2Frederic Wakeman369
  3. 3Russell Janney334
  4. 4John P. Marquand258
  5. 5Sholem Asch251
  6. 6Kenneth Roberts223
  7. 7Mary Jane Ward175
  8. 8Margery Sharp152
  9. 9John Jennings145
  10. 10Frank Yerby131

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.