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Lloyd C. Douglas

Charting Dec 26, 1932Mar 7, 1954 · 233 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Decade
Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    52 crowns

    19321954

    Longest reign 26 weeks (Mar–Aug 1943) · First crown Apr 1935

Peak Power
14.35%
week of Aug 30, 1943
Career Power
2,307
share-weeks
Crowns
52
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
695
December 1942 – December 1943
Peak Five Years
1,048
February 1941 – January 1946
Top-five weeks
173
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
233
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.91%
week of Apr 29, 1935
Comebacks
4
Mar 1935 · Feb 1939 · Dec 1942 · Dec 1948

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

7 books · 2,307 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Robe#11111,107.3
The Big Fisherman#162590.1
Green Light#131335.7
White Banners#315142.5
Disputed Passage#312113.8
Forgive Us Our Trespasses#3111.0
Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal#716.3

At their peak

1942 in books

Lloyd C. Douglas's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1942 to December 1943. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Lloyd C. Douglas695
  2. 2Marcia Davenport476
  3. 3Betty Smith221
  4. 4John P. Marquand210
  5. 5Daphne Du Maurier168
  6. 6William Saroyan160
  7. 7Louis Bromfield143
  8. 8Franz Werfel101
  9. 9Xavier Herbert96
  10. 10Howard Fast93

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.