Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Wilbur Daniel Steele
Charting Jul 22, 1945 → Sep 16, 1945 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.01%
- week of Sep 16, 1945
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- September 1944 – September 1945
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- September 1940 – September 1945
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Jul 22, 1945
- 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 · 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| That Girl from Memphis | #5 | 3 | 14.7 |
At their peak
1944 in books →Wilbur Daniel Steele's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1944 to September 1945. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin375
- 2Gwenthalyn Graham334
- 3Kathleen Winsor314
- 4Elizabeth Goudge223
- 5Adria Locke Langley192
- 6Irving Stone156
- 7Somerset Maugham135
- 8Rosamond Lehmann128
- 9Upton Sinclair115
- 10C. S. Forester90
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.