Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Franz Werfel
Charting Dec 3, 1934 → Apr 7, 1946 · 64 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
15 crowns
19341946Longest reign 12 weeks (Aug–Oct 1942) · First crown Jan 1935
- Peak Power
- 13.04%
- week of Oct 26, 1942
- Career Power
- 744
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 15
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 477
- March 1942 – February 1943
- Peak Five Years
- 491
- March 1938 – February 1943
- Top-five weeks
- 56
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 64
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 15.38%
- week of Dec 31, 1934
- Comebacks
- 1
- Jun 1942, after 7 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 books · 744 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Song of Bernadette | #1 | 39 | 477.1 | ||
| The Forty Days of Musa Dagh | #1 | 20 | 244.5 | ||
| Hearken Unto the Voice | #6 | 2 | 13.6 | ||
| Star of the Unborn | #12 | 3 | 8.4 |
At their peak
1942 in books →Franz Werfel's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1942 to February 1943. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Franz Werfel477
- 2John Steinbeck234
- 3Rachel Field233
- 4Nancy Hale220
- 5Marcia Davenport215
- 6Lloyd C. Douglas186
- 7Pearl S. Buck185
- 8Louis Bromfield158
- 9Helen MacInnes135
- 10Austin Wright103
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.