Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Susan Yorke
Charting Oct 22, 1950 → Jan 14, 1951 · 12 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Widow | #6 | 12 | 50.2 |
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:
- 1Henry Morton Robinson544
- 2Mika Waltari458
- 3Gwen Bristow353
- 4John Hersey352
- 5Ernest Hemingway207
- 6Daphne Du Maurier197
- 7Robert Penn Warren175
- 8Kathleen Winsor171
- 9Samuel Shellabarger151
- 10Frank Yerby145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.