Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Nancy Bruff
Charting Nov 11, 1945 → Jan 20, 1946 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.33%
- week of Dec 23, 1945
- Career Power
- 37
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 37
- January 1945 – January 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 37
- February 1941 – January 1946
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Nov 25, 1945
- 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 · 37 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 Manatee | #7 | 10 | 37.0 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Nancy Bruff's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1945 to January 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Adria Locke Langley295
- 2A. J. Cronin283
- 3Thomas B. Costain264
- 4Kathleen Winsor258
- 5Gwenthalyn Graham239
- 6James Ramsey Ullman201
- 7James Hilton201
- 8Sinclair Lewis153
- 9Upton Sinclair143
- 10Alice Tisdale Hobart128
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.