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Joseph S. Pennell

Charting Aug 13, 1944Oct 15, 1944 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19441944

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Sep 1944) · First crown Sep 1944

Peak Power
8.14%
week of Oct 15, 1944
Career Power
117
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
117
October 1943 – October 1944
Peak Five Years
117
October 1939 – October 1944
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Sep 10, 1944
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 · 117 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 History of Rome Hanks#110116.8

At their peak

1943 in books

Joseph S. Pennell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1943 to October 1944. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Betty Smith550
  2. 2Lillian Smith407
  3. 3Lloyd C. Douglas370
  4. 4Somerset Maugham293
  5. 5John Hersey289
  6. 6John P. Marquand235
  7. 7Sholem Asch165
  8. 8Joseph S. Pennell117
  9. 9Ilka Chase109
  10. 10Charles Jackson82

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.