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Susan Yorke

Charting Oct 22, 1950Jan 14, 1951 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.98%
week of Dec 24, 1950
Career Power
50
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
50
January 1950 – January 1951
Peak Five Years
50
January 1946 – January 1951
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Nov 5, 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 · 50 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
The Widow#61250.2

At their peak

1950 in books

Susan Yorke's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1950 to January 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Henry Morton Robinson544
  2. 2Mika Waltari458
  3. 3Gwen Bristow353
  4. 4John Hersey352
  5. 5Ernest Hemingway207
  6. 6Daphne Du Maurier197
  7. 7Robert Penn Warren175
  8. 8Kathleen Winsor171
  9. 9Samuel Shellabarger151
  10. 10Frank Yerby145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.