Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Dorothy Macardle
Charting Aug 10, 1942 → Oct 19, 1942 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.09%
- week of Sep 21, 1942
- Career Power
- 73
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 73
- October 1941 – October 1942
- Peak Five Years
- 73
- November 1937 – October 1942
- Top-five weeks
- 8
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Aug 10, 1942
- 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 · 73 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 Uninvited | #4 | 8 | 72.9 |
At their peak
1941 in books →Dorothy Macardle's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1941 to October 1942. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Franz Werfel282
- 2Mary Ellen Chase248
- 3Pearl S. Buck239
- 4John Steinbeck234
- 5Rachel Field233
- 6A. J. Cronin223
- 7Marguerite Steen220
- 8Edna Ferber159
- 9Louis Bromfield150
- 10Helen MacInnes135
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.