Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Russell Janney
Charting Oct 6, 1946 → Oct 26, 1947 · 54 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 10.42%
- week of Apr 6, 1947
- Career Power
- 472
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 465
- October 1946 – September 1947
- Peak Five Years
- 472
- November 1942 – October 1947
- Top-five weeks
- 36
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 54
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Nov 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 · 472 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 Miracle of the Bells | #2 | 54 | 471.6 |
At their peak
1946 in books →Russell Janney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1946 to September 1947. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Russell Janney465
- 2Laura Z. Hobson354
- 3Kenneth Roberts299
- 4Sholem Asch258
- 5John P. Marquand258
- 6Taylor Caldwell247
- 7Frank Yerby237
- 8Sinclair Lewis175
- 9John Steinbeck162
- 10Frederic Wakeman150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.