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H. Allen Smith

Charting Aug 25, 1946Nov 17, 1946 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.45%
week of Oct 27, 1946
Career Power
90
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
90
November 1945 – November 1946
Peak Five Years
90
December 1941 – November 1946
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Sep 1, 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 · 90 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

1945 in books

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

  1. 1Taylor Caldwell384
  2. 2Frederic Wakeman321
  3. 3Thomas B. Costain316
  4. 4Erich Maria Remarque283
  5. 5Daphne Du Maurier278
  6. 6Mary Jane Ward195
  7. 7Frank Yerby177
  8. 8Evelyn Waugh158
  9. 9Margery Sharp152
  10. 10James Ramsey Ullman151

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.