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Edna Ferber portraitEdna Ferber

Charting Nov 16, 1931Oct 5, 1958 · 94 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    19311958

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Mar 1935) · First crown Mar 1935

Peak Power
10.04%
week of Aug 31, 1958
Career Power
936
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
266
October 1957 – October 1958
Peak Five Years
266
October 1953 – October 1958
Top-five weeks
77
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
94
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.97%
week of Mar 4, 1935
Comebacks
6
May 1933 · Mar 1935 · Nov 1941, after 6 quiet years · Mar 1945 · Nov 1952, after 7 quiet years · Apr 1958, after 5 quiet years

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 · 936 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Ice Palace#228266.0
Giant#227235.0
Saratoga Trunk#114159.2
Come and Get It#114155.5
Great Son#2883.6
American Beauty#2223.7
They Brought Their Women#2112.7

At their peak

1957 in books

Edna Ferber's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1957 to October 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Traver505
  2. 2James Gould Cozzens422
  3. 3Anya Seton297
  4. 4Edna Ferber266
  5. 5Thomas B. Costain227
  6. 6Ayn Rand171
  7. 7Nevil Shute162
  8. 8Jerome Weidman159
  9. 9Helen MacInnes154
  10. 10Myron S. Kaufmann133

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.