Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Legrand Cannon
Charting Nov 9, 1942 → Jan 4, 1943 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.41%
- week of Nov 30, 1942
- Career Power
- 45
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 45
- January 1942 – January 1943
- Peak Five Years
- 45
- January 1938 – January 1943
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Nov 9, 1942
- 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 · 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Look to the Mountain | #4 | 5 | 45.4 |
At their peak
1942 in books →Legrand Cannon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1942 to January 1943. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Franz Werfel411
- 2Pearl S. Buck239
- 3John Steinbeck234
- 4Rachel Field233
- 5Nancy Hale165
- 6Mary Ellen Chase162
- 7Helen MacInnes135
- 8Marcia Davenport122
- 9Daphne Du Maurier106
- 10Austin Wright103
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.