Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Scott O'Dell
Charting Nov 2, 1947 → Dec 14, 1947 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.66%
- week of Dec 14, 1947
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- December 1946 – December 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- December 1942 – December 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Nov 2, 1947
- 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 · 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hill of the Hawk | #15 | 4 | 7.8 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Scott O'Dell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1946 to December 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Laura Z. Hobson393
- 2Russell Janney360
- 3Kenneth Roberts299
- 4Thomas B. Costain266
- 5Frank Yerby231
- 6John P. Marquand207
- 7Sinclair Lewis193
- 8Sholem Asch187
- 9Willard Motley180
- 10John Steinbeck162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.