Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ann Petry
Charting Mar 3, 1946 → May 5, 1946 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.85%
- week of May 5, 1946
- Career Power
- 12
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 12
- May 1945 – May 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 12
- May 1941 – May 1946
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Mar 3, 1946
- 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 · 12 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 Street | #12 | 5 | 11.9 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Ann Petry's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1945 to May 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain426
- 2Adria Locke Langley295
- 3James Ramsey Ullman245
- 4Kathleen Winsor213
- 5Daphne Du Maurier206
- 6James Hilton204
- 7Sinclair Lewis175
- 8Erich Maria Remarque175
- 9Alice Tisdale Hobart152
- 10Upton Sinclair143
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.