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Neil H. Swanson

Charting Dec 21, 1947Mar 7, 1948 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.07%
week of Feb 29, 1948
Career Power
43
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
43
March 1947 – March 1948
Peak Five Years
43
March 1943 – March 1948
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Feb 8, 1948
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 · 43 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
Unconquered#71143.3

At their peak

1947 in books

Neil H. Swanson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1947 to March 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Laura Z. Hobson393
  2. 2Thomas B. Costain348
  3. 3Ben Ames Williams322
  4. 4Russell Janney229
  5. 5Frank Yerby227
  6. 6Marcia Davenport219
  7. 7Willard Motley216
  8. 8Kenneth Roberts200
  9. 9Sinclair Lewis193
  10. 10John Steinbeck175

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.