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Bruce Lancaster

Charting Apr 10, 1939Aug 3, 1952 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.27%
week of Apr 24, 1939
Career Power
45
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
23
May 1938 – April 1939
Peak Five Years
23
May 1934 – April 1939
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Apr 17, 1939
Comebacks
1
Jun 1947, after 8 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

3 books · 45 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
Guns of Burgoyne#4323.2
The Scarlet Patch#10719.1
The Secret Road#1312.8

At their peak

1938 in books

Bruce Lancaster's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1938 to April 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings455
  2. 2Howard Spring382
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier366
  4. 4Rachel Field359
  5. 5A. J. Cronin272
  6. 6Phyllis Bottome200
  7. 7F. Van Wyck Mason138
  8. 8Lloyd C. Douglas114
  9. 9Mary Roberts Rinehart99
  10. 10Kenneth Roberts87

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.