Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Josephine Pinckney
Charting Oct 14, 1945 → Jan 6, 1946 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.29%
- week of Dec 9, 1945
- Career Power
- 67
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 67
- January 1945 – January 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 67
- January 1941 – January 1946
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Nov 18, 1945
- 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 · 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three O'Clock Dinner | #5 | 13 | 67.1 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Josephine Pinckney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1945 to January 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin312
- 2Adria Locke Langley291
- 3Kathleen Winsor264
- 4Gwenthalyn Graham260
- 5Thomas B. Costain235
- 6James Hilton192
- 7James Ramsey Ullman176
- 8Upton Sinclair143
- 9Sinclair Lewis136
- 10Rosamond Lehmann128
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.