Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lin Yutang
Charting Dec 4, 1939 → Sep 20, 1953 · 21 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
19391953First crown Dec 1939
- Peak Power
- 7.82%
- week of Mar 18, 1940
- Career Power
- 174
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 160
- March 1939 – March 1940
- Peak Five Years
- 160
- April 1935 – March 1940
- Top-five weeks
- 15
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 21
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Dec 25, 1939
- 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
2 books · 174 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moment in Peking | #1 | 16 | 160.3 | ||
| The Vermillion Gate | #12 | 5 | 13.9 |
At their peak
1939 in books →Lin Yutang's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1939 to March 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Steinbeck458
- 2Sholem Asch253
- 3Christopher Morley241
- 4Rachel Field194
- 5John P. Marquand187
- 6Ethel Vance183
- 7Lin Yutang160
- 8Thomas Wolfe127
- 9C. S. Forester123
- 10Pietro di Donato114
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.