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Jan Struther

Charting Aug 5, 1940Feb 17, 1941 · 29 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    19401941

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Aug–Sep 1940) · First crown Aug 1940

Peak Power
11.11%
week of Nov 25, 1940
Career Power
327
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
327
February 1940 – February 1941
Peak Five Years
327
March 1936 – February 1941
Top-five weeks
27
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
29
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Aug 19, 1940
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 · 327 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
Mrs. Miniver#129327.1

At their peak

1940 in books

Jan Struther's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1940 to February 1941. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Richard Llewellyn432
  2. 2Jan Struther327
  3. 3Ernest Hemingway227
  4. 4F. Van Wyck Mason206
  5. 5Kenneth Roberts167
  6. 6Nina Fedorova144
  7. 7Louis Bromfield136
  8. 8Henry Bellamann135
  9. 9Elizabeth von Arnim117
  10. 10Richard Wright116

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.