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Betty Smith

Charting Aug 30, 1943 → Nov 10, 1963 · 96 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
28 crowns
19431963
Longest reign 25 weeks (Oct 1943 – Apr 1944) · First crown Sep 1943

Peak Power: 14.16%; week of Apr 9, 1944
Career Power: 951; share-weeks
Crowns: 28; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 636; August 1943 – August 1944
Peak Five Years: 655; October 1939 – September 1944
Top-five weeks: 66; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 96; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Sep 20, 1943
Comebacks: 1; Oct 1948

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

4 books · 951 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
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	#1September 1943	51	August 1943 – September 1944	655.2	655.2
Tomorrow Will Be Better	#2October 1948	20	September 1948 – January 1949	162.4	162.4
Joy in the Morning	#5September 1963	10	September 1963 – November 1963	69.4	69.4
Maggie-Now	#7March 1958	15	March 1958 – June 1958	64.0	64.0

At their peak

1943 in books →

Betty Smith's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1943 to August 1944. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.