Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gladys Schmitt
Charting Mar 17, 1946 → Nov 12, 1961 · 39 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.21%
- week of Jun 9, 1946
- Career Power
- 229
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 141
- July 1945 – July 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 141
- July 1941 – July 1946
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 39
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Apr 7, 1946
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 1961, after 15 quiet years
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
3 books · 229 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David the King | #3 | 18 | 141.4 | ||
| Rembrandt | #8 | 17 | 77.1 | ||
| Confessors of the Name | #11 | 4 | 10.2 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Gladys Schmitt's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1945 to July 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain449
- 2Daphne Du Maurier273
- 3Erich Maria Remarque270
- 4James Ramsey Ullman245
- 5Adria Locke Langley232
- 6James Hilton204
- 7Taylor Caldwell189
- 8Kathleen Winsor180
- 9Sinclair Lewis175
- 10Evelyn Waugh158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.