Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lau Shaw
Charting Aug 26, 1945 → Nov 11, 1945 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.03%
- week of Oct 14, 1945
- Career Power
- 66
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 66
- November 1944 – November 1945
- Peak Five Years
- 66
- November 1940 – November 1945
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Sep 2, 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 · 66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rickshaw Boy | #4 | 12 | 66.3 |
At their peak
1944 in books →Lau Shaw's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1944 to November 1945. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin375
- 2Gwenthalyn Graham325
- 3Kathleen Winsor320
- 4Adria Locke Langley262
- 5Elizabeth Goudge158
- 6James Hilton145
- 7Irving Stone144
- 8Upton Sinclair143
- 9Rosamond Lehmann128
- 10Thomas B. Costain119
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.