Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ilka Chase
Charting Nov 22, 1943 → Jul 8, 1951 · 29 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.69%
- week of Feb 20, 1944
- Career Power
- 180
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 109
- March 1943 – February 1944
- Peak Five Years
- 121
- April 1941 – April 1946
- Top-five weeks
- 13
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 29
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Dec 19, 1943
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 1951, after 7 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
3 books · 180 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Bed We Cry | #3 | 12 | 109.2 | ||
| New York 22 | #5 | 13 | 59.1 | ||
| I Love Miss Tilli Bean | #10 | 4 | 12.1 |
At their peak
1943 in books →Ilka Chase's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1943 to February 1944. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas671
- 2Betty Smith367
- 3Marcia Davenport347
- 4John P. Marquand325
- 5Daphne Du Maurier168
- 6William Saroyan160
- 7Sholem Asch158
- 8Ilka Chase109
- 9Xavier Herbert96
- 10Howard Fast93
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.