Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
H. Allen Smith
Charting Aug 25, 1946 → Nov 17, 1946 · 13 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhubarb | #4 | 13 | 90.5 |
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:
- 1Taylor Caldwell384
- 2Frederic Wakeman321
- 3Thomas B. Costain316
- 4Erich Maria Remarque283
- 5Daphne Du Maurier278
- 6Mary Jane Ward195
- 7Frank Yerby177
- 8Evelyn Waugh158
- 9Margery Sharp152
- 10James Ramsey Ullman151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.