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Walter O'Meara

Charting May 13, 1951May 20, 1951 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.44%
week of May 20, 1951
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
May 1950 – May 1951
Peak Five Years
4
June 1946 – May 1951
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of May 20, 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 · 4 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
The Grand Portage#1424.2

At their peak

1950 in books

Walter O'Meara's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1950 to May 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Henry Morton Robinson541
  2. 2Budd Schulberg335
  3. 3Frances Parkinson Keyes300
  4. 4Mika Waltari276
  5. 5Gwen Bristow249
  6. 6Ernest Hemingway226
  7. 7John Hersey214
  8. 8Robert Penn Warren175
  9. 9Nevil Shute152
  10. 10Thomas B. Costain148

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.