Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ned Calmer
Charting Feb 26, 1950 → Apr 9, 1950 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.97%
- week of Apr 9, 1950
- Career Power
- 24
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 24
- April 1949 – April 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 24
- April 1945 – April 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Apr 9, 1950
- 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 · 24 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 Strange Land | #9 | 7 | 23.9 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Ned Calmer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1949 to April 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari409
- 2John P. Marquand357
- 3John O'Hara322
- 4Lloyd C. Douglas316
- 5Edward Streeter254
- 6Sholem Asch246
- 7Taylor Caldwell198
- 8Frank Yerby160
- 9Daphne Du Maurier157
- 10Tom Lea150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.