Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Albert E. Idell
Charting Aug 9, 1943 → Aug 23, 1943 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.81%
- week of Aug 23, 1943
- Career Power
- 29
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 29
- August 1942 – August 1943
- Peak Five Years
- 29
- September 1938 – August 1943
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Aug 9, 1943
- 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 · 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centennial Summer | #4 | 3 | 28.8 |
At their peak
1942 in books →Albert E. Idell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1942 to August 1943. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas562
- 2Marcia Davenport511
- 3Franz Werfel311
- 4Nancy Hale228
- 5William Saroyan160
- 6Louis Bromfield143
- 7Daphne Du Maurier111
- 8Xavier Herbert96
- 9Howard Fast93
- 10Sinclair Lewis74
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.