Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Sherman
Charting Sep 28, 1947 → Oct 12, 1947 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.87%
- week of Oct 12, 1947
- Career Power
- 9
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 9
- October 1946 – October 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- October 1942 – October 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Oct 5, 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 · 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bright Promise | #10 | 3 | 9.0 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Richard Sherman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1946 to October 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Russell Janney458
- 2Laura Z. Hobson371
- 3Kenneth Roberts299
- 4Sholem Asch258
- 5John P. Marquand258
- 6Frank Yerby243
- 7Taylor Caldwell222
- 8Sinclair Lewis186
- 9John Steinbeck162
- 10Thomas B. Costain153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.