Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Elizabeth Chevalier
Charting Jul 27, 1942 → Sep 28, 1942 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.80%
- week of Sep 7, 1942
- Career Power
- 69
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 69
- October 1941 – September 1942
- Peak Five Years
- 69
- October 1937 – September 1942
- Top-five weeks
- 8
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Jul 27, 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 · 69 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drivin' Woman | #4 | 8 | 69.2 |
At their peak
1941 in books →Elizabeth Chevalier's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1941 to September 1942. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin267
- 2Marguerite Steen258
- 3Mary Ellen Chase248
- 4Pearl S. Buck239
- 5Franz Werfel239
- 6John Steinbeck234
- 7Rachel Field217
- 8Edna Ferber159
- 9Louis Bromfield150
- 10Helen MacInnes125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.