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Lau Shaw

Charting Aug 26, 1945Nov 11, 1945 · 12 weeks with chart power

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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.

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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:

  1. 1A. J. Cronin375
  2. 2Gwenthalyn Graham325
  3. 3Kathleen Winsor320
  4. 4Adria Locke Langley262
  5. 5Elizabeth Goudge158
  6. 6James Hilton145
  7. 7Irving Stone144
  8. 8Upton Sinclair143
  9. 9Rosamond Lehmann128
  10. 10Thomas B. Costain119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.