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Glenway Wescott portraitGlenway Wescott

Charting Mar 25, 1945Apr 29, 1945 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.89%
week of Apr 29, 1945
Career Power
45
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
45
May 1944 – April 1945
Peak Five Years
45
May 1940 – April 1945
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Mar 25, 1945
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 · 45 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
Apartment in Athens#4545.4

At their peak

1944 in books

Glenway Wescott's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1944 to April 1945. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Somerset Maugham379
  2. 2Lillian Smith357
  3. 3A. J. Cronin291
  4. 4Kathleen Winsor266
  5. 5Gwenthalyn Graham257
  6. 6Elizabeth Goudge205
  7. 7John Hersey191
  8. 8Betty Smith149
  9. 9Irving Stone128
  10. 10Joseph S. Pennell117

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.