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Gabrielle Roy portraitGabrielle Roy

Charting May 25, 1947Jun 22, 1947 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.72%
week of Jun 22, 1947
Career Power
8
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
8
June 1946 – June 1947
Peak Five Years
8
July 1942 – June 1947
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Jun 8, 1947
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 · 8 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.

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The Tin Flute#1448.1

At their peak

1946 in books

Gabrielle Roy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1946 to June 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Russell Janney390
  2. 2Taylor Caldwell372
  3. 3Frederic Wakeman349
  4. 4Kenneth Roberts277
  5. 5Sholem Asch258
  6. 6John P. Marquand258
  7. 7Laura Z. Hobson179
  8. 8Frank Yerby173
  9. 9John Steinbeck158
  10. 10Margery Sharp152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.