Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Pat Frank
Charting Oct 13, 1946 → Jun 8, 1952 · 46 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.40%
- week of Feb 9, 1947
- Career Power
- 180
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 142
- July 1946 – July 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 147
- November 1943 – November 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 46
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Nov 17, 1946
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1952, after 5 quiet years
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
3 books · 180 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. Adam | #6 | 36 | 144.8 | ||
| Hold Back the Night | #7 | 9 | 32.8 | ||
| An Affair of State | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Pat Frank's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1946 to July 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Russell Janney402
- 2Taylor Caldwell362
- 3Frederic Wakeman324
- 4Kenneth Roberts288
- 5Sholem Asch258
- 6John P. Marquand258
- 7Laura Z. Hobson206
- 8Frank Yerby187
- 9John Steinbeck160
- 10Margery Sharp152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.