Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Elizabeth von Arnim
Charting Dec 3, 1934 → Jul 1, 1940 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.91%
- week of Jun 24, 1940
- Career Power
- 153
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 117
- July 1939 – July 1940
- Peak Five Years
- 117
- July 1935 – July 1940
- Top-five weeks
- 14
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Apr 22, 1940
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 1940, 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
2 books · 153 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs. Skeffington | #2 | 12 | 116.8 | ||
| The Jasmine Farm | #5 | 5 | 36.5 |
At their peak
1939 in books →Elizabeth von Arnim's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1939 to July 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Steinbeck302
- 2Christopher Morley293
- 3Sholem Asch282
- 4Richard Llewellyn277
- 5Ethel Vance183
- 6Lin Yutang160
- 7Elizabeth von Arnim117
- 8Thomas Wolfe116
- 9Richard Wright116
- 10Pietro di Donato114
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.