Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James H. Street
Charting Nov 11, 1945 → Apr 9, 1950 · 21 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.75%
- week of Jan 27, 1946
- Career Power
- 97
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 89
- April 1945 – March 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 97
- April 1945 – April 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Dec 2, 1945
- 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
2 books · 97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gauntlet | #5 | 17 | 88.7 | ||
| Mingo Dabney | #14 | 4 | 8.1 |
At their peak
1945 in books →James H. Street's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1945 to March 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain372
- 2Adria Locke Langley295
- 3James Ramsey Ullman245
- 4Kathleen Winsor244
- 5James Hilton204
- 6Sinclair Lewis175
- 7Alice Tisdale Hobart152
- 8A. J. Cronin152
- 9Upton Sinclair143
- 10Gwenthalyn Graham141
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.