Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Austin Wright
Charting Apr 20, 1942 → Jun 15, 1942 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.37%
- week of Jun 15, 1942
- Career Power
- 103
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 103
- June 1941 – June 1942
- Peak Five Years
- 103
- June 1937 – June 1942
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of May 18, 1942
- 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 · 103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Islandia | #2 | 9 | 103.0 |
At their peak
1941 in books →Austin Wright's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1941 to June 1942. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin410
- 2Marguerite Steen329
- 3Mary Ellen Chase248
- 4Pearl S. Buck239
- 5Eric Knight217
- 6John Steinbeck197
- 7Edna Ferber159
- 8Daphne Du Maurier106
- 9Austin Wright103
- 10Judith Kelly102
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.