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Elizabeth Janeway

Charting Nov 15, 1943Aug 2, 1959 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.21%
week of Dec 12, 1943
Career Power
34
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
25
December 1942 – December 1943
Peak Five Years
27
December 1940 – November 1945
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Nov 15, 1943
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 · 34 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 Walsh Girls#5325.0
The Third Choice#1337.0
Daisy Kenyon#1611.8

At their peak

1942 in books

Elizabeth Janeway's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1942 to December 1943. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Lloyd C. Douglas695
  2. 2Marcia Davenport476
  3. 3Betty Smith221
  4. 4John P. Marquand210
  5. 5Daphne Du Maurier168
  6. 6William Saroyan160
  7. 7Louis Bromfield143
  8. 8Franz Werfel101
  9. 9Xavier Herbert96
  10. 10Howard Fast93

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.