Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Hervey Allen
Charting Jul 3, 1933 → Dec 19, 1948 · 123 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Decade
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
35 crowns
19331948Longest reign 28 weeks (Jul 1933 – Jan 1934) · First crown Jul 1933
- Peak Power
- 13.95%
- week of Jan 8, 1934
- Career Power
- 1,328
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 35
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 703
- July 1933 – June 1934
- Peak Five Years
- 1,115
- June 1933 – May 1938
- Top-five weeks
- 105
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 123
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Jul 3, 1933
- Comebacks
- 4
- Oct 1936 · Apr 1938 · May 1943, after 5 quiet years · Oct 1948, after 5 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
5 books · 1,328 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Adverse | #1 | 86 | 997.5 | ||
| Action at Aquila | #1 | 11 | 117.6 | ||
| Toward the Morning | #3 | 15 | 108.5 | ||
| The Forest and the Fort | #3 | 6 | 60.5 | ||
| Bedford Village | #4 | 5 | 44.2 |
At their peak
1933 in books →Hervey Allen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1933 to June 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Hervey Allen703
- 2Sinclair Lewis148
- 3John Galsworthy100
- 4Margaret Ayer Barnes97
- 5Lion Feuchtwanger91
- 6Caroline Miller85
- 7Dashiell Hammett84
- 8Isak Dinesen83
- 9James Joyce81
- 10Hans Fallada71
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.