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Ross Lockridge

Charting Jan 25, 1948Aug 8, 1948 · 29 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    19481948

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
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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:

  1. 1Ben Ames Williams427
  2. 2Thomas B. Costain326
  3. 3Ross Lockridge301
  4. 4Marcia Davenport285
  5. 5Frances Parkinson Keyes218
  6. 6Frank Yerby214
  7. 7F. Van Wyck Mason212
  8. 8Agnes Sligh Turnbull199
  9. 9Elizabeth Goudge195
  10. 10Thornton Wilder157

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.