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Frank Slaughter

Charting Nov 10, 1946Nov 24, 1946 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.61%
week of Nov 24, 1946
Career Power
6
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
6
December 1945 – November 1946
Peak Five Years
6
December 1941 – November 1946
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.09%
week of Nov 10, 1946
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 · 6 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
In a Dark Garden#1536.3

At their peak

1945 in books

Frank Slaughter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1945 to November 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Taylor Caldwell395
  2. 2Frederic Wakeman330
  3. 3Thomas B. Costain302
  4. 4Erich Maria Remarque283
  5. 5Daphne Du Maurier278
  6. 6Mary Jane Ward195
  7. 7Frank Yerby179
  8. 8Evelyn Waugh158
  9. 9Margery Sharp152
  10. 10Gladys Schmitt141

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.