Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mary Jane Ward
Charting Apr 28, 1946 → Sep 29, 1946 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.23%
- week of Aug 25, 1946
- Career Power
- 195
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 195
- October 1945 – September 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 195
- October 1941 – September 1946
- Top-five weeks
- 17
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of May 19, 1946
- 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 · 195 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 Snake Pit | #2 | 23 | 194.7 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Mary Jane Ward's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1945 to September 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain418
- 2Taylor Caldwell302
- 3Erich Maria Remarque283
- 4Daphne Du Maurier278
- 5James Ramsey Ullman228
- 6Frederic Wakeman219
- 7Mary Jane Ward195
- 8Sinclair Lewis175
- 9Kathleen Winsor161
- 10Evelyn Waugh158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.