Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Walter Karig
Charting Apr 8, 1951 → Apr 8, 1951 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.23%
- week of Apr 8, 1951
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- April 1950 – April 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- April 1946 – April 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Apr 8, 1951
- 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 · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Hicks | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1950 in books →Walter Karig's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1950 to April 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Henry Morton Robinson616
- 2Mika Waltari336
- 3Gwen Bristow309
- 4John Hersey294
- 5Budd Schulberg277
- 6Frances Parkinson Keyes227
- 7Ernest Hemingway226
- 8Robert Penn Warren175
- 9Kathleen Winsor171
- 10Thomas B. Costain148
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.