Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Ramsey Ullman
Charting Sep 16, 1945 → Nov 2, 1958 · 51 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The White Tower | #2 | 26 | 244.5 | ||
| River of the Sun | #3 | 14 | 114.0 | ||
| Windom's Way | #9 | 8 | 27.0 | ||
| The Day on Fire | #14 | 3 | 6.3 |
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:
- 1Thomas B. Costain350
- 2Adria Locke Langley295
- 3Kathleen Winsor250
- 4James Ramsey Ullman245
- 5James Hilton204
- 6A. J. Cronin181
- 7Sinclair Lewis175
- 8Gwenthalyn Graham163
- 9Alice Tisdale Hobart152
- 10Upton Sinclair143
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.