Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Charting Jun 26, 1949 → Aug 21, 1949 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.24%
- week of Aug 14, 1949
- Career Power
- 42
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 42
- August 1948 – August 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 42
- September 1944 – August 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Jul 31, 1949
- 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 · 42 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 Track of the Cat | #7 | 9 | 42.3 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Walter Van Tilburg Clark's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1948 to August 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas495
- 2Norman Mailer432
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes344
- 4John P. Marquand319
- 5Irwin Shaw304
- 6A. J. Cronin177
- 7Carl Sandburg165
- 8Betty Smith162
- 9F. Van Wyck Mason151
- 10Frank Yerby150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.