Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Herbert Gorman
Charting Sep 9, 1945 → Sep 23, 1945 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.71%
- week of Sep 23, 1945
- Career Power
- 7
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 7
- October 1944 – September 1945
- Peak Five Years
- 7
- October 1940 – September 1945
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Sep 16, 1945
- 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 · 7 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 Wine of San Lorenzo | #12 | 3 | 7.4 |
At their peak
1944 in books →Herbert Gorman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1944 to September 1945. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin375
- 2Gwenthalyn Graham334
- 3Kathleen Winsor316
- 4Elizabeth Goudge223
- 5Adria Locke Langley203
- 6Irving Stone160
- 7Rosamond Lehmann128
- 8Somerset Maugham122
- 9Upton Sinclair121
- 10C. S. Forester95
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.