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Eric Knight

Charting Apr 21, 1941Oct 20, 1941 · 27 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    14 crowns

    19411941

    Longest reign 14 weeks (Apr–Jul 1941) · First crown Apr 1941

Peak Power
12.24%
week of Sep 1, 1941
Career Power
345
share-weeks
Crowns
14
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
345
October 1940 – October 1941
Peak Five Years
345
November 1936 – October 1941
Top-five weeks
27
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
27
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Apr 28, 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 · 345 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
This Above All#127345.4

At their peak

1940 in books

Eric Knight's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1940 to October 1941. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Hilton357
  2. 2Eric Knight345
  3. 3Ernest Hemingway290
  4. 4Kenneth Roberts268
  5. 5A. J. Cronin187
  6. 6Jan Struther168
  7. 7J. P. Marquand140
  8. 8Ellen Glasgow135
  9. 9Willa Cather115
  10. 10Marguerite Steen109

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.