Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ruth Chatterton
Charting May 28, 1950 → Oct 29, 1950 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.56%
- week of Aug 27, 1950
- Career Power
- 127
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 127
- November 1949 – October 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 127
- November 1945 – October 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Jun 25, 1950
- 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 · 127 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homeward Borne | #5 | 23 | 126.8 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Ruth Chatterton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1949 to October 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari511
- 2Henry Morton Robinson419
- 3John Hersey352
- 4Gwen Bristow314
- 5Sholem Asch242
- 6John O'Hara204
- 7Daphne Du Maurier201
- 8Kathleen Winsor171
- 9Robert Penn Warren171
- 10Samuel Shellabarger151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.