Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Monica Dickens
Charting Sep 7, 1947 → Sep 28, 1947 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.53%
- week of Sep 28, 1947
- Career Power
- 6
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 6
- October 1946 – September 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 6
- October 1942 – September 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Sep 28, 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 · 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Happy Prisoner | #15 | 3 | 5.7 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Monica Dickens's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1946 to September 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Russell Janney465
- 2Laura Z. Hobson354
- 3Kenneth Roberts299
- 4Sholem Asch258
- 5John P. Marquand258
- 6Taylor Caldwell247
- 7Frank Yerby237
- 8Sinclair Lewis175
- 9John Steinbeck162
- 10Frederic Wakeman150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.