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Ben Ames Williams

Charting Oct 13, 1941 → Jan 31, 1954 · 93 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
15 crowns
19411954
Longest reign 13 weeks (Nov 1947 – Feb 1948) · First crown Nov 1947

Peak Power: 13.01%; week of Feb 29, 1948
Career Power: 783; share-weeks
Crowns: 15; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 430; September 1947 – August 1948
Peak Five Years: 540; September 1943 – August 1948
Top-five weeks: 54; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 93; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Nov 9, 1947
Comebacks: 3; Aug 1944 · Oct 1947 · Nov 1953, after 5 quiet years

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

5 books · 783 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
House Divided	#1November 1947	40	September 1947 – August 1948	429.5	429.5
The Unconquered	#5October 1953	20	September 1953 – January 1954	112.9	112.9
Leave Her to Heaven	#3August 1944	12	July 1944 – December 1944	110.6	110.6
The Strange Woman	#3October 1941	8	October 1941 – December 1941	77.4	77.4
Owen Glen	#6October 1950	13	September 1950 – December 1950	52.3	52.3

At their peak

1947 in books →

Ben Ames Williams's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1947 to August 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.