Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lillian Smith
Charting Mar 26, 1944 → Oct 29, 1944 · 32 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
22 crowns
19441944Longest reign 18 weeks (Apr–Aug 1944) · First crown Apr 1944
- Peak Power
- 13.19%
- week of Aug 27, 1944
- Career Power
- 429
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 22
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 429
- November 1943 – October 1944
- Peak Five Years
- 429
- November 1939 – October 1944
- Top-five weeks
- 32
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 32
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Apr 16, 1944
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 book · 429 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strange Fruit | #1 | 32 | 429.4 |
At their peak
1943 in books →Lillian Smith's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1943 to October 1944. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Betty Smith521
- 2Lillian Smith429
- 3Lloyd C. Douglas348
- 4Somerset Maugham319
- 5John Hersey289
- 6John P. Marquand209
- 7Sholem Asch149
- 8Joseph S. Pennell117
- 9Ilka Chase109
- 10Ben Ames Williams83
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.