Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Tom Lea
Charting May 8, 1949 → Mar 15, 1953 · 38 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.76%
- week of Aug 14, 1949
- Career Power
- 234
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 150
- October 1948 – October 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 234
- March 1948 – March 1953
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 38
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Jun 19, 1949
- Comebacks
- 1
- Dec 1952
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
2 books · 234 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 Brave Bulls | #3 | 22 | 150.2 | ||
| The Wonderful Country | #6 | 16 | 84.2 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Tom Lea's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1948 to October 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas531
- 2John P. Marquand386
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes344
- 4Norman Mailer336
- 5Irwin Shaw304
- 6Edward Streeter183
- 7Carl Sandburg165
- 8Frank Yerby160
- 9F. Van Wyck Mason153
- 10Tom Lea150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.