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Rosamond Lehmann portraitRosamond Lehmann

Charting Nov 14, 1932Aug 16, 1953 · 37 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    19321953

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Apr–May 1945) · First crown Nov 1932

Peak Power
7.85%
week of Jul 8, 1945
Career Power
324
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
128
September 1944 – September 1945
Peak Five Years
132
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
22
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
37
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Nov 14, 1932
Comebacks
3
Jun 1936 · May 1945, after 9 quiet years · Jun 1953, after 8 quiet years

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

4 books · 324 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
The Ballad and the Source#112127.8
The Weather in the Streets#11093.7
The Echoing Grove#51264.0
Invitation to the Waltz#1338.2

At their peak

1944 in books

Rosamond Lehmann's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1944 to September 1945. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1A. J. Cronin375
  2. 2Gwenthalyn Graham334
  3. 3Kathleen Winsor312
  4. 4Elizabeth Goudge223
  5. 5Adria Locke Langley177
  6. 6Irving Stone151
  7. 7Somerset Maugham148
  8. 8Rosamond Lehmann128
  9. 9Upton Sinclair107
  10. 10Lillian Smith88

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.