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Frank Hough

Charting May 19, 1941Jun 9, 1941 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.17%
week of Jun 9, 1941
Career Power
35
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
35
June 1940 – June 1941
Peak Five Years
35
June 1936 – June 1941
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of May 19, 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 · 35 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 Neutral Ground#4434.8

At their peak

1940 in books

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

  1. 1Jan Struther327
  2. 2Ernest Hemingway290
  3. 3Kenneth Roberts268
  4. 4James Hilton254
  5. 5Richard Llewellyn205
  6. 6F. Van Wyck Mason192
  7. 7Nina Fedorova144
  8. 8J. P. Marquand140
  9. 9Willa Cather115
  10. 10Eric Knight114

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.