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Dan Wickenden

Charting Jul 29, 1945Jun 13, 1948 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.91%
week of Jul 29, 1945
Career Power
14
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
8
August 1944 – July 1945
Peak Five Years
14
June 1943 – June 1948
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Jul 29, 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

2 books · 14 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
The Wayfarers#518.3
Tobias Brandywine#1125.5

At their peak

1944 in books

Dan Wickenden's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1944 to July 1945. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1A. J. Cronin375
  2. 2Gwenthalyn Graham334
  3. 3Kathleen Winsor301
  4. 4Somerset Maugham227
  5. 5Elizabeth Goudge223
  6. 6Lillian Smith168
  7. 7Irving Stone146
  8. 8Rosamond Lehmann126
  9. 9Joseph S. Pennell117
  10. 10Ben Ames Williams101

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.