Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Joseph S. Pennell
Charting Aug 13, 1944 → Oct 15, 1944 · 10 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 crowns
19441944Longest 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The History of Rome Hanks | #1 | 10 | 116.8 |
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:
- 1Betty Smith550
- 2Lillian Smith407
- 3Lloyd C. Douglas370
- 4Somerset Maugham293
- 5John Hersey289
- 6John P. Marquand235
- 7Sholem Asch165
- 8Joseph S. Pennell117
- 9Ilka Chase109
- 10Charles Jackson82
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.