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Adria Locke Langley

Charting Jun 10, 1945Jan 13, 1946 · 30 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    10 crowns

    19451946

    Longest reign 8 weeks (Jul–Sep 1945) · First crown Jul 1945

Peak Power
11.28%
week of Sep 16, 1945
Career Power
295
share-weeks
Crowns
10
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
295
January 1945 – January 1946
Peak Five Years
295
January 1941 – January 1946
Top-five weeks
19
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
30
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jul 8, 1945
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 · 295 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
A Lion Is in the Streets#130294.6

At their peak

1945 in books

Adria Locke Langley's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1945 to January 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1A. J. Cronin297
  2. 2Adria Locke Langley295
  3. 3Kathleen Winsor261
  4. 4Gwenthalyn Graham250
  5. 5Thomas B. Costain250
  6. 6James Hilton197
  7. 7James Ramsey Ullman188
  8. 8Sinclair Lewis145
  9. 9Upton Sinclair143
  10. 10Rosamond Lehmann128

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.