Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen
Charting Sep 7, 1947 → Oct 5, 1947 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.50%
- week of Oct 5, 1947
- Career Power
- 6
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 6
- October 1946 – October 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 6
- October 1942 – October 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Sep 7, 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 · 6 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 Neighbors | #15 | 3 | 6.0 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1946 to October 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Russell Janney460
- 2Laura Z. Hobson363
- 3Kenneth Roberts299
- 4Sholem Asch258
- 5John P. Marquand258
- 6Frank Yerby240
- 7Taylor Caldwell235
- 8Sinclair Lewis181
- 9John Steinbeck162
- 10Pat Frank142
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.