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Theodore Dreiser portraitTheodore Dreiser

Charting Apr 14, 1946Jun 9, 1946 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.45%
week of May 19, 1946
Career Power
37
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
37
June 1945 – June 1946
Peak Five Years
37
June 1941 – June 1946
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Apr 21, 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 · 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.

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At their peak

1945 in books

Theodore Dreiser's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1945 to June 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Thomas B. Costain449
  2. 2Adria Locke Langley286
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier254
  4. 4James Ramsey Ullman245
  5. 5Erich Maria Remarque231
  6. 6James Hilton204
  7. 7Kathleen Winsor180
  8. 8Sinclair Lewis175
  9. 9Alice Tisdale Hobart152
  10. 10Evelyn Waugh150

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.