Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Clemence Dane
Charting Jan 4, 1932 → Oct 30, 1955 · 19 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.88%
- week of Oct 2, 1955
- Career Power
- 131
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 112
- November 1954 – October 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 112
- November 1950 – October 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 19
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Jan 4, 1932
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jul 1955, after 23 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 · 131 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 Flower Girls | #4 | 17 | 112.4 | ||
| Broome Stages | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| History of White Ben | #6 | 1 | 7.3 |
At their peak
1954 in books →Clemence Dane's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1954 to October 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mac Hyman437
- 2Hamilton Basso395
- 3Francoise Sagan385
- 4Irving Stone327
- 5Patrick Dennis295
- 6Robert Ruark294
- 7John Phillips Marquand256
- 8Anya Seton235
- 9Morton Thompson201
- 10Ernest Kellogg Gann146
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.