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Ethel Vance

Charting Oct 2, 1939 → Dec 21, 1942 · 19 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 crowns
19391942
Longest reign 4 weeks (Oct–Nov 1939) · First crown Oct 1939

Peak Power: 9.00%; week of Jan 8, 1940
Career Power: 209; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 183; January 1939 – January 1940
Peak Five Years: 209; January 1938 – December 1942
Top-five weeks: 19; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 19; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Oct 9, 1939
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 · 209 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
Escape	#1October 1939	16	October 1939 – January 1940	183.1	183.1
Reprisal	#4December 1942	3	December 1942 – December 1942	26.3	26.3

At their peak

1939 in books →

Ethel Vance's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1939 to January 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.