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Martha Gellhorn

Charting Feb 13, 1944Feb 13, 1944 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.05%
week of Feb 13, 1944
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
10
February 1943 – February 1944
Peak Five Years
10
February 1939 – February 1944
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Feb 13, 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

1 book · 10 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
Liana#419.6

At their peak

1943 in books

Martha Gellhorn's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1943 to February 1944. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Lloyd C. Douglas673
  2. 2Marcia Davenport361
  3. 3Betty Smith352
  4. 4John P. Marquand313
  5. 5Daphne Du Maurier168
  6. 6William Saroyan160
  7. 7Sholem Asch149
  8. 8Ilka Chase101
  9. 9Xavier Herbert96
  10. 10Howard Fast93

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.