Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Granville Hicks
Charting Apr 20, 1942 → May 18, 1942 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.21%
- week of May 18, 1942
- Career Power
- 48
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 48
- May 1941 – May 1942
- Peak Five Years
- 48
- May 1937 – May 1942
- Top-five weeks
- 5
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Apr 20, 1942
- 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 · 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Only One Storm | #4 | 5 | 47.9 |
At their peak
1941 in books →Granville Hicks's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1941 to May 1942. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin410
- 2Marguerite Steen329
- 3Eric Knight275
- 4Mary Ellen Chase248
- 5Pearl S. Buck210
- 6Edna Ferber159
- 7John Steinbeck143
- 8James Hilton139
- 9Daphne Du Maurier106
- 10Judith Kelly102
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.