Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Edna Ferber
Charting Nov 16, 1931 → Oct 5, 1958 · 94 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 crowns
19311958Longest 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Palace | #2 | 28 | 266.0 | ||
| Giant | #2 | 27 | 235.0 | ||
| Saratoga Trunk | #1 | 14 | 159.2 | ||
| Come and Get It | #1 | 14 | 155.5 | ||
| Great Son | #2 | 8 | 83.6 | ||
| American Beauty | #2 | 2 | 23.7 | ||
| They Brought Their Women | #2 | 1 | 12.7 |
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:
- 1Robert Traver505
- 2James Gould Cozzens422
- 3Anya Seton297
- 4Edna Ferber266
- 5Thomas B. Costain227
- 6Ayn Rand171
- 7Nevil Shute162
- 8Jerome Weidman159
- 9Helen MacInnes154
- 10Myron S. Kaufmann133
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.