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Mary Ellen Chase

Charting Oct 8, 1934 → Mar 5, 1961 · 88 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 crowns
19341961
Longest reign 4 weeks (Jan–Feb 1942) · First crown Dec 1941

Peak Power: 10.82%; week of Apr 6, 1942
Career Power: 685; share-weeks
Crowns: 6; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 248; April 1941 – April 1942
Peak Five Years: 297; March 1956 – March 1961
Top-five weeks: 39; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 88; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Dec 15, 1941
Comebacks: 3; Dec 1941, after 6 quiet years · Jan 1958, after 16 quiet years · Sep 1960

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 · 685 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
Windswept	#1December 1941	20	November 1941 – April 1942	248.0	248.0
The Lovely Ambition	#4December 1960	36	July 1960 – March 1961	217.3	217.3
The Edge of Darkness	#5January 1958	15	November 1957 – March 1958	79.6	79.6
Mary Peters	#2October 1934	8	October 1934 – November 1934	72.6	70.3
Silas Crockett	#4December 1935	6	December 1935 – January 1936	52.5	52.5
Dawn at Lyonesse	#7March 1938	2	March 1938 – April 1938	12.7	12.7
The Plum Tree	#14December 1949	1	December 1949	2.4	2.4

At their peak

1941 in books →

Mary Ellen Chase's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1941 to April 1942. 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.