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Tennessee Williams portraitTennessee Williams

Charting Oct 15, 1950Nov 5, 1950 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.35%
week of Nov 5, 1950
Career Power
15
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
15
November 1949 – November 1950
Peak Five Years
15
November 1945 – November 1950
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Oct 22, 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 · 15 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 Roman Spring of Mrs.Stone#10414.7

At their peak

1949 in books

Tennessee Williams's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1949 to November 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Mika Waltari508
  2. 2Henry Morton Robinson432
  3. 3John Hersey352
  4. 4Gwen Bristow320
  5. 5Sholem Asch231
  6. 6Daphne Du Maurier201
  7. 7John O'Hara191
  8. 8Robert Penn Warren175
  9. 9Kathleen Winsor171
  10. 10Samuel Shellabarger151

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.