Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Nelia Gardner White
Charting Apr 25, 1948 → Jun 26, 1955 · 33 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.67%
- week of Jul 4, 1948
- Career Power
- 93
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 47
- August 1947 – July 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 83
- November 1946 – October 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 33
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of May 2, 1948
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 1950
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
4 books · 93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Trumpet Before Him | #9 | 14 | 47.5 | ||
| The Pink House | #10 | 13 | 33.2 | ||
| The Thorn Tree | #14 | 5 | 10.8 | ||
| Woman at the Window | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Nelia Gardner White's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1947 to July 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ben Ames Williams427
- 2Thomas B. Costain348
- 3Ross Lockridge295
- 4Marcia Davenport285
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes218
- 6Frank Yerby217
- 7F. Van Wyck Mason208
- 8Agnes Sligh Turnbull194
- 9Elizabeth Goudge176
- 10Willard Motley163
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.