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Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

J. P. Marquand

Charting Mar 3, 1941May 26, 1941 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
8.06%
week of May 26, 1941
Career Power
140
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
140
June 1940 – May 1941
Peak Five Years
140
June 1936 – May 1941
Top-five weeks
13
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Mar 10, 1941
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 · 140 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
H. M. Pulham, Esquire#213140.5

At their peak

1940 in books

J. P. Marquand's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1940 to May 1941. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Jan Struther327
  2. 2Ernest Hemingway290
  3. 3Kenneth Roberts268
  4. 4Richard Llewellyn233
  5. 5James Hilton229
  6. 6F. Van Wyck Mason206
  7. 7Nina Fedorova144
  8. 8J. P. Marquand140
  9. 9Willa Cather115
  10. 10Louis Bromfield111

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.