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Allis McKay

Charting Jun 16, 1941Jul 7, 1941 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.35%
week of Jul 7, 1941
Career Power
15
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
15
July 1940 – July 1941
Peak Five Years
15
July 1936 – July 1941
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Jun 16, 1941
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 · 15 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
They Came to a River#6214.5

At their peak

1940 in books

Allis McKay's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1940 to July 1941. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Jan Struther327
  2. 2James Hilton299
  3. 3Ernest Hemingway290
  4. 4Kenneth Roberts268
  5. 5Eric Knight172
  6. 6Richard Llewellyn155
  7. 7Nina Fedorova144
  8. 8J. P. Marquand140
  9. 9Ellen Glasgow135
  10. 10F. Van Wyck Mason134

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.