Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Evelyn Eaton
Charting Jun 24, 1940 → Jul 14, 1941 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.11%
- week of Jul 29, 1940
- Career Power
- 67
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 58
- September 1939 – September 1940
- Peak Five Years
- 67
- July 1936 – July 1941
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Jun 24, 1940
- 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
2 books · 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quietly My Captain Waits | #4 | 7 | 57.6 | ||
| Restless Are the Sails | #4 | 1 | 9.6 |
At their peak
1939 in books →Evelyn Eaton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1939 to September 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Richard Llewellyn410
- 2Christopher Morley293
- 3Sholem Asch282
- 4F. Van Wyck Mason198
- 5Ethel Vance183
- 6W. Somerset Maugham176
- 7Lin Yutang160
- 8Louis Bromfield159
- 9John Steinbeck142
- 10Henry Bellamann135
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.