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Willard Shepard

Charting Dec 8, 1946Apr 29, 1951 · 16 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.41%
week of Feb 16, 1947
Career Power
42
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
41
March 1946 – March 1947
Peak Five Years
42
May 1946 – April 1951
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Jan 12, 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

2 books · 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Holdfast Gaineswith Odell Shepard#51541.4
Jenkins' Earwith Odell Shepard#1610.9

At their peak

1946 in books

Willard Shepard's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1946 to March 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Taylor Caldwell451
  2. 2Frederic Wakeman369
  3. 3Russell Janney253
  4. 4John P. Marquand223
  5. 5Sholem Asch212
  6. 6Erich Maria Remarque210
  7. 7Mary Jane Ward195
  8. 8Frank Yerby181
  9. 9Daphne Du Maurier161
  10. 10Margery Sharp152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.