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Mary King O'Donnell

Charting Feb 17, 1946Mar 3, 1946 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.44%
week of Mar 3, 1946
Career Power
4
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
4
March 1945 – March 1946
Peak Five Years
4
March 1941 – March 1946
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Mar 3, 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 · 4 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
Those Other People#1424.5

At their peak

1945 in books

Mary King O'Donnell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1945 to March 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain339
  2. 2Adria Locke Langley295
  3. 3Kathleen Winsor246
  4. 4James Ramsey Ullman242
  5. 5James Hilton204
  6. 6A. J. Cronin196
  7. 7Sinclair Lewis175
  8. 8Gwenthalyn Graham175
  9. 9Alice Tisdale Hobart152
  10. 10Upton Sinclair143

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.