Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bruce Marshall
Charting Sep 2, 1945 → Sep 21, 1947 · 24 weeks with chart power
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- Peak Power
- 5.03%
- week of Oct 21, 1945
- Career Power
- 122
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 119
- February 1945 – February 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 122
- October 1942 – September 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 24
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Sep 16, 1945
- 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
3 books · 122 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 World, the Flesh and Father Smith | #3 | 22 | 118.5 | ||
| Yellow Tapers for Paris | #16 | 1 | 1.8 | ||
| Vespers in Vienna | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Bruce Marshall's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1945 to February 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Adria Locke Langley295
- 2Thomas B. Costain291
- 3A. J. Cronin254
- 4Kathleen Winsor250
- 5James Ramsey Ullman219
- 6Gwenthalyn Graham217
- 7James Hilton204
- 8Sinclair Lewis166
- 9Upton Sinclair143
- 10Alice Tisdale Hobart139
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.