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Ralph Ingersoll

Charting Mar 14, 1948Apr 18, 1948 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.88%
week of Apr 18, 1948
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
24
April 1947 – April 1948
Peak Five Years
24
May 1943 – April 1948
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Mar 14, 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 · 24 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Great Ones#8623.6

At their peak

1947 in books

Ralph Ingersoll's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1947 to April 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Ben Ames Williams383
  2. 2Thomas B. Costain348
  3. 3Laura Z. Hobson345
  4. 4Marcia Davenport269
  5. 5Frank Yerby227
  6. 6Willard Motley219
  7. 7Frances Parkinson Keyes201
  8. 8Sinclair Lewis193
  9. 9Russell Janney166
  10. 10Ross Lockridge149

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.