Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Norman Collins
Charting Feb 9, 1947 → Jun 1, 1947 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.03%
- week of May 4, 1947
- Career Power
- 84
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 84
- June 1946 – June 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 84
- June 1942 – June 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Feb 16, 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 · 84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dulcimer Street | #6 | 17 | 83.5 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Norman Collins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1946 to June 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Taylor Caldwell385
- 2Frederic Wakeman369
- 3Russell Janney362
- 4Sholem Asch258
- 5John P. Marquand258
- 6Kenneth Roberts257
- 7Margery Sharp152
- 8Frank Yerby151
- 9John Jennings145
- 10John Steinbeck144
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.