Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lester Cohen
Charting Sep 9, 1945 → Sep 9, 1945 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.23%
- week of Sep 9, 1945
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- September 1944 – September 1945
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- September 1940 – September 1945
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of Sep 9, 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 · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coming Home | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1944 in books →Lester Cohen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1944 to September 1945. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin375
- 2Gwenthalyn Graham334
- 3Kathleen Winsor312
- 4Elizabeth Goudge223
- 5Adria Locke Langley177
- 6Irving Stone151
- 7Somerset Maugham148
- 8Rosamond Lehmann128
- 9Upton Sinclair107
- 10Lillian Smith88
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.