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James Ramsey Ullman

Charting Sep 16, 1945Nov 2, 1958 · 51 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
10.26%
week of Jan 20, 1946
Career Power
392
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
245
March 1945 – March 1946
Peak Five Years
245
March 1941 – March 1946
Top-five weeks
27
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
51
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Dec 23, 1945
Comebacks
1
Feb 1951, after 5 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

4 books · 392 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
The White Tower#226244.5
River of the Sun#314114.0
Windom's Way#9827.0
The Day on Fire#1436.3

At their peak

1945 in books

James Ramsey Ullman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1945 to March 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain350
  2. 2Adria Locke Langley295
  3. 3Kathleen Winsor250
  4. 4James Ramsey Ullman245
  5. 5James Hilton204
  6. 6A. J. Cronin181
  7. 7Sinclair Lewis175
  8. 8Gwenthalyn Graham163
  9. 9Alice Tisdale Hobart152
  10. 10Upton Sinclair143

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.