Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ross Lockridge
Charting Jan 25, 1948 → Aug 8, 1948 · 29 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
19481948Longest reign 2 weeks (Apr–May 1948) · First crown Apr 1948
- Peak Power
- 11.46%
- week of May 30, 1948
- Career Power
- 301
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 4
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 301
- August 1947 – August 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 301
- August 1943 – August 1948
- Top-five weeks
- 23
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 29
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Apr 25, 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 →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 book · 301 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raintree County | #1 | 29 | 301.2 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Ross Lockridge's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1947 to August 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ben Ames Williams427
- 2Thomas B. Costain326
- 3Ross Lockridge301
- 4Marcia Davenport285
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes218
- 6Frank Yerby214
- 7F. Van Wyck Mason212
- 8Agnes Sligh Turnbull199
- 9Elizabeth Goudge195
- 10Thornton Wilder157
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.