Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Nancy Wilson Ross
Charting Mar 9, 1947 → Nov 24, 1957 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.18%
- week of May 11, 1947
- Career Power
- 81
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 62
- July 1946 – July 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 79
- April 1945 – March 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Apr 13, 1947
- Comebacks
- 1
- Mar 1950
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
3 books · 81 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 Left Hand Is the Dreamer | #8 | 16 | 62.1 | ||
| I, My Ancestor | #9 | 6 | 16.9 | ||
| The Return of Lady Brace | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Nancy Wilson Ross's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1946 to July 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Russell Janney414
- 2Taylor Caldwell354
- 3Frederic Wakeman295
- 4Kenneth Roberts294
- 5Sholem Asch258
- 6John P. Marquand258
- 7Laura Z. Hobson233
- 8Frank Yerby203
- 9John Steinbeck162
- 10John Jennings145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.