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Helen Howe

Charting Jul 21, 1946Jan 6, 1957 · 27 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.44%
week of Sep 29, 1946
Career Power
102
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
60
November 1945 – November 1946
Peak Five Years
60
November 1941 – November 1946
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
27
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Sep 8, 1946
Comebacks
1
Nov 1956, after 10 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

2 books · 102 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
We Happy Few#51560.2
The Success#81241.9

At their peak

1945 in books

Helen Howe'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 Caldwell362
  2. 2Thomas B. Costain345
  3. 3Frederic Wakeman292
  4. 4Erich Maria Remarque283
  5. 5Daphne Du Maurier278
  6. 6Mary Jane Ward195
  7. 7James Ramsey Ullman173
  8. 8Frank Yerby170
  9. 9Evelyn Waugh158
  10. 10Margery Sharp150

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.