Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Peter Bourne
Charting Oct 12, 1947 → Aug 26, 1951 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.91%
- week of Dec 14, 1947
- Career Power
- 75
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 71
- February 1947 – February 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 75
- September 1946 – August 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Nov 9, 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
3 books · 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drums of Destiny | #5 | 15 | 71.4 | ||
| Flames of Empire | #16 | 1 | 1.8 | ||
| The Golden Road | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Peter Bourne's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1947 to February 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Laura Z. Hobson393
- 2Thomas B. Costain332
- 3Russell Janney283
- 4Kenneth Roberts273
- 5Ben Ames Williams258
- 6Frank Yerby227
- 7Willard Motley209
- 8Sinclair Lewis193
- 9John Steinbeck182
- 10Marcia Davenport153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.