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Judith Kelly

Charting Sep 1, 1941Nov 17, 1941 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.36%
week of Nov 17, 1941
Career Power
102
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
102
November 1940 – November 1941
Peak Five Years
102
November 1936 – November 1941
Top-five weeks
9
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Sep 29, 1941
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 · 102 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
Marriage Is a Private Affair#412101.8

At their peak

1940 in books

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

  1. 1James Hilton357
  2. 2Eric Knight345
  3. 3Kenneth Roberts268
  4. 4A. J. Cronin243
  5. 5Ernest Hemingway232
  6. 6Marguerite Steen158
  7. 7J. P. Marquand140
  8. 8Ellen Glasgow135
  9. 9Jan Struther119
  10. 10Willa Cather115

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.