Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bruce Lancaster
Charting Apr 10, 1939 → Aug 3, 1952 · 11 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guns of Burgoyne | #4 | 3 | 23.2 | ||
| The Scarlet Patch | #10 | 7 | 19.1 | ||
| The Secret Road | #13 | 1 | 2.8 |
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:
- 1Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings455
- 2Howard Spring382
- 3Daphne Du Maurier366
- 4Rachel Field359
- 5A. J. Cronin272
- 6Phyllis Bottome200
- 7F. Van Wyck Mason138
- 8Lloyd C. Douglas114
- 9Mary Roberts Rinehart99
- 10Kenneth Roberts87
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.