Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alice Tisdale Hobart
Charting Dec 18, 1933 → Jun 5, 1955 · 73 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.83%
- week of Mar 1, 1937
- Career Power
- 452
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 152
- March 1945 – February 1946
- Peak Five Years
- 214
- February 1944 – January 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 24
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 73
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jan 8, 1934
- Comebacks
- 3
- Nov 1936 · Oct 1945, after 8 quiet years · Nov 1948
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
7 books · 452 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 Peacock Sheds His Tail | #4 | 21 | 152.2 | ||
| Yang and Yin | #3 | 16 | 140.6 | ||
| The Cleft Rock | #8 | 17 | 62.3 | ||
| River Supreme | #4 | 5 | 38.0 | ||
| Oil for the Lamps of China | #2 | 3 | 30.0 | ||
| Venture Into Darkness | #11 | 9 | 24.5 | ||
| The Serpent-Wreathed Staff | #14 | 2 | 4.2 |
At their peak
1945 in books →Alice Tisdale Hobart's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1945 to February 1946. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Thomas B. Costain327
- 2Adria Locke Langley295
- 3Kathleen Winsor243
- 4James Ramsey Ullman239
- 5A. J. Cronin210
- 6James Hilton204
- 7Gwenthalyn Graham188
- 8Sinclair Lewis175
- 9Alice Tisdale Hobart152
- 10Upton Sinclair143
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.