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Ernest Hemingway

Charting Oct 25, 1937 → Aug 15, 1999 · 124 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
14 crowns
19371999
Longest reign 7 weeks (Oct–Nov 1950) · First crown Oct 1940

Peak Power: 11.51%; week of Mar 3, 1941
Career Power: 1,138; share-weeks
Crowns: 14; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 290; April 1940 – March 1941
Peak Five Years: 401; March 1948 – March 1953
Top-five weeks: 74; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 124; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Oct 28, 1940
Comebacks: 5; Nov 1940 · Oct 1950, after 9 quiet years · Oct 1952 · Nov 1970, after 18 quiet years · Jul 1986, after 15 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 · 1,138 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
For Whom the Bell Tolls	#1October 1940	23	October 1940 – March 1941	290.5	290.5
Islands in the Stream	#2November 1970	24	October 1970 – March 1971	260.1	260.1
Across the River and Into the Trees	#1October 1950	21	September 1950 – February 1951	226.2	226.1
The Old Man and the Sea	#3October 1952	26	September 1952 – March 1953	174.6	174.6
The Garden of Eden	#5June 1986	17	June 1986 – September 1986	98.8	98.8
To Have and Have Not	#3November 1937	9	October 1937 – January 1938	74.8	74.8
True at First Light	#11August 1999	4	July 1999 – August 1999	12.7	12.2

At their peak

1940 in books →

Ernest Hemingway's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1940 to March 1941. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.