Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Neil H. Swanson
Charting Dec 21, 1947 → Mar 7, 1948 · 11 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unconquered | #7 | 11 | 43.3 |
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:
- 1Laura Z. Hobson393
- 2Thomas B. Costain348
- 3Ben Ames Williams322
- 4Russell Janney229
- 5Frank Yerby227
- 6Marcia Davenport219
- 7Willard Motley216
- 8Kenneth Roberts200
- 9Sinclair Lewis193
- 10John Steinbeck175
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.