Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Helen Howe
Charting Jul 21, 1946 → Jan 6, 1957 · 27 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Happy Few | #5 | 15 | 60.2 | ||
| The Success | #8 | 12 | 41.9 |
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:
- 1Taylor Caldwell362
- 2Thomas B. Costain345
- 3Frederic Wakeman292
- 4Erich Maria Remarque283
- 5Daphne Du Maurier278
- 6Mary Jane Ward195
- 7James Ramsey Ullman173
- 8Frank Yerby170
- 9Evelyn Waugh158
- 10Margery Sharp150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.