Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robert Standish
Charting Jul 31, 1949 → Sep 11, 1949 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.38%
- week of Sep 11, 1949
- Career Power
- 31
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 31
- September 1948 – September 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 31
- September 1944 – September 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Aug 7, 1949
- 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 · 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elephant Walk | #8 | 7 | 30.7 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Robert Standish's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1948 to September 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas511
- 2Norman Mailer392
- 3John P. Marquand356
- 4Frances Parkinson Keyes344
- 5Irwin Shaw304
- 6Carl Sandburg165
- 7Frank Yerby154
- 8F. Van Wyck Mason153
- 9Betty Smith152
- 10Edward Streeter150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.