Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Willard Motley
Charting Jun 1, 1947 → Sep 7, 1958 · 52 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.61%
- week of Oct 5, 1947
- Career Power
- 261
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 221
- May 1947 – May 1948
- Peak Five Years
- 259
- February 1947 – February 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 52
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Jul 6, 1947
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 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
3 books · 261 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knock on Any Door | #5 | 41 | 221.4 | ||
| We Fished All Night | #9 | 10 | 37.3 | ||
| Let No Man Write My Epitaph | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1947 in books →Willard Motley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1947 to May 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ben Ames Williams399
- 2Thomas B. Costain348
- 3Laura Z. Hobson316
- 4Marcia Davenport280
- 5Frank Yerby227
- 6Willard Motley221
- 7Frances Parkinson Keyes209
- 8Sinclair Lewis193
- 9Ross Lockridge178
- 10Russell Janney147
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.