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Commander Edward Ellisberg

Charting Jun 9, 1941Aug 11, 1941 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.23%
week of Jul 7, 1941
Career Power
63
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
63
August 1940 – August 1941
Peak Five Years
63
August 1936 – August 1941
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jun 16, 1941
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

1 book · 63 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.

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At their peak

1940 in books

Commander Edward Ellisberg's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1940 to August 1941. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Hilton350
  2. 2Jan Struther306
  3. 3Ernest Hemingway290
  4. 4Kenneth Roberts268
  5. 5Eric Knight241
  6. 6Nina Fedorova144
  7. 7J. P. Marquand140
  8. 8Ellen Glasgow135
  9. 9Willa Cather115
  10. 10Marcus Goodrich103

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.