Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Francis Hackett
Charting Oct 9, 1939 → Oct 16, 1939 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.13%
- week of Oct 16, 1939
- Career Power
- 21
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 21
- October 1938 – October 1939
- Peak Five Years
- 21
- October 1934 – October 1939
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Oct 16, 1939
- 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 · 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Anne Boleyn | #3 | 2 | 20.6 |
At their peak
1938 in books →Francis Hackett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1938 to October 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Rachel Field484
- 2John Steinbeck372
- 3Daphne Du Maurier348
- 4John P. Marquand187
- 5F. Van Wyck Mason138
- 6Elizabeth Page136
- 7Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings134
- 8Thomas Wolfe127
- 9Lloyd C. Douglas114
- 10Rumer Godden111
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.