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Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Thomas W. Duncan

Charting Oct 12, 1947Feb 1, 1948 · 17 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.50%
week of Dec 21, 1947
Career Power
91
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
91
February 1947 – February 1948
Peak Five Years
91
February 1943 – February 1948
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Oct 26, 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 · 91 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

1947 in books

Thomas W. Duncan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1947 to February 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Laura Z. Hobson393
  2. 2Thomas B. Costain332
  3. 3Russell Janney283
  4. 4Kenneth Roberts273
  5. 5Ben Ames Williams258
  6. 6Frank Yerby227
  7. 7Willard Motley209
  8. 8Sinclair Lewis193
  9. 9John Steinbeck182
  10. 10Marcia Davenport153

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.