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Robert Standish

Charting Jul 31, 1949Sep 11, 1949 · 7 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Elephant Walk#8730.7

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:

  1. 1Lloyd C. Douglas511
  2. 2Norman Mailer392
  3. 3John P. Marquand356
  4. 4Frances Parkinson Keyes344
  5. 5Irwin Shaw304
  6. 6Carl Sandburg165
  7. 7Frank Yerby154
  8. 8F. Van Wyck Mason153
  9. 9Betty Smith152
  10. 10Edward Streeter150

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.