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Howard Spring

Charting May 30, 1938 → Feb 11, 1962 · 115 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
11 crowns
19381962
Longest reign 7 weeks (Jul–Aug 1938) · First crown Jul 1938

Peak Power: 12.58%; week of Oct 17, 1938
Career Power: 869; share-weeks
Crowns: 11; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 382; January 1938 – January 1939
Peak Five Years: 459; February 1936 – February 1941
Top-five weeks: 56; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 115; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Jul 11, 1938
Comebacks: 2; Jan 1941 · Jun 1952, after 11 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

10 books · 869 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
My Son, My Son!	#1July 1938	31	May 1938 – January 1939	381.8	381.8
The Houses in Between	#2July 1952	37	May 1952 – January 1953	297.4	297.4
Fame Is the Spur	#3December 1940	9	November 1940 – February 1941	77.0	77.0
These Lovers Fled Away	#9November 1955	11	October 1955 – January 1956	35.7	35.7
Time and the Hour	#8April 1958	7	March 1958 – May 1958	27.5	27.5
All the Day Long	#11March 1960	10	March 1960 – June 1960	25.7	25.7
I Met a Lady	#11December 1961	7	December 1961 – February 1962	17.2	17.2
Dunkerley's	#13February 1947	1	February 1947	2.8	2.8
There Is No Armour	#14April 1949	1	April 1949	2.4	2.4
A Sunset Touch	#16November 1953	1	November 1953	1.8	1.8

At their peak

1938 in books →

Howard Spring's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1938 to January 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.