Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Henry Bellamann
Charting Apr 22, 1940 → Jul 25, 1948 · 26 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.13%
- week of Jun 17, 1940
- Career Power
- 212
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 135
- September 1939 – August 1940
- Peak Five Years
- 135
- September 1935 – August 1940
- Top-five weeks
- 13
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 26
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Apr 29, 1940
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1948, after 8 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
2 books · 212 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King's Row | #2 | 14 | 135.3 | ||
| Parris Mitchell of Kings Row | #3 | 12 | 77.1 |
At their peak
1939 in books →Henry Bellamann's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1939 to August 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Richard Llewellyn377
- 2Christopher Morley293
- 3Sholem Asch282
- 4John Steinbeck186
- 5Ethel Vance183
- 6F. Van Wyck Mason167
- 7Lin Yutang160
- 8Louis Bromfield159
- 9W. Somerset Maugham159
- 10Henry Bellamann135
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.