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Kathleen Winsor

Charting Nov 5, 1944Oct 5, 1952 · 81 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    9 crowns

    19441952

    Longest reign 8 weeks (Nov–Dec 1944) · First crown Nov 1944

Peak Power
10.87%
week of Feb 18, 1945
Career Power
654
share-weeks
Crowns
9
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
339
November 1944 – October 1945
Peak Five Years
481
May 1941 – May 1946
Top-five weeks
42
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
81
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Nov 5, 1944
Comebacks
1
May 1950

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

3 books · 654 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
Forever Amber#158480.7
Star Money#322171.1
The Lovers#1611.8

At their peak

1944 in books

Kathleen Winsor's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1944 to October 1945. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1A. J. Cronin375
  2. 2Kathleen Winsor339
  3. 3Gwenthalyn Graham334
  4. 4Adria Locke Langley250
  5. 5Elizabeth Goudge183
  6. 6Irving Stone162
  7. 7Upton Sinclair141
  8. 8Rosamond Lehmann128
  9. 9James Hilton127
  10. 10C. S. Forester106

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.