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Marcia Davenport

Charting Nov 23, 1936 → Sep 18, 1960 · 134 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 crowns
19361960
Longest reign 3 weeks (Feb–Mar 1943) · First crown Nov 1942

Peak Power: 11.95%; week of Apr 12, 1943
Career Power: 1,238; share-weeks
Crowns: 8; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 562; October 1942 – October 1943
Peak Five Years: 562; October 1938 – October 1943
Top-five weeks: 90; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 134; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Nov 23, 1942
Comebacks: 4; Nov 1942, after 5 quiet years · Dec 1947 · Jan 1955, after 7 quiet years · Mar 1960, after 5 quiet years

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

5 books · 1,238 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
The Valley of Decision	#1November 1942	49	November 1942 – October 1943	561.5	561.5
East Side, West Side	#1February 1948	28	November 1947 – May 1948	284.7	284.7
The Constant Image	#3March 1960	29	February 1960 – September 1960	229.8	229.8
My Brother's Keeper	#6December 1954	20	November 1954 – April 1955	108.3	108.3
Of Lena Geyer	#5March 1937	8	November 1936 – March 1937	53.9	53.9

At their peak

1942 in books →

Marcia Davenport's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1942 to October 1943. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.