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Thomas Heggen

Charting Sep 15, 1946May 2, 1948 · 28 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.33%
week of Jan 26, 1947
Career Power
87
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
81
March 1946 – March 1947
Peak Five Years
87
May 1943 – May 1948
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Nov 3, 1946
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 · 87 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
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At their peak

1946 in books

Thomas Heggen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1946 to March 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Taylor Caldwell451
  2. 2Frederic Wakeman369
  3. 3Russell Janney253
  4. 4John P. Marquand223
  5. 5Sholem Asch212
  6. 6Erich Maria Remarque210
  7. 7Mary Jane Ward195
  8. 8Frank Yerby181
  9. 9Daphne Du Maurier161
  10. 10Margery Sharp152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.