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Nancy Hale

Charting Oct 12, 1942 → Dec 24, 1950 · 26 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 crowns
19421950
Longest reign 3 weeks (Nov 1942) · First crown Nov 1942

Peak Power: 9.49%; week of Jan 25, 1943
Career Power: 242; share-weeks
Crowns: 5; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 228; March 1942 – March 1943
Peak Five Years: 228; March 1938 – March 1943
Top-five weeks: 20; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 26; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Nov 2, 1942
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

2 books · 242 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 Prodigal Women	#1November 1942	20	October 1942 – March 1943	228.0	228.0
The Sign of Jonah	#13November 1950	6	November 1950 – December 1950	14.5	14.5

At their peak

1942 in books →

Nancy Hale's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1942 to March 1943. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.