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Gwenthalyn Graham

Charting Nov 12, 1944Jul 1, 1945 · 31 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    19441945

    First crown Apr 1945

Peak Power
11.10%
week of Jun 3, 1945
Career Power
334
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
334
July 1944 – July 1945
Peak Five Years
334
July 1940 – July 1945
Top-five weeks
31
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Apr 22, 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 · 334 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
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At their peak

1944 in books

Gwenthalyn Graham's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1944 to July 1945. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1A. J. Cronin375
  2. 2Gwenthalyn Graham334
  3. 3Kathleen Winsor301
  4. 4Somerset Maugham278
  5. 5Lillian Smith226
  6. 6Elizabeth Goudge223
  7. 7Irving Stone146
  8. 8Rosamond Lehmann118
  9. 9Joseph S. Pennell117
  10. 10Ben Ames Williams111

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.