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Lion Feuchtwanger portraitLion Feuchtwanger

Charting Nov 14, 1932Jun 7, 1953 · 41 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    19321953

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Apr 1934) · First crown Apr 1934

Peak Power
6.43%
week of May 7, 1934
Career Power
285
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
121
February 1947 – February 1948
Peak Five Years
181
September 1946 – September 1951
Top-five weeks
13
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
41
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Apr 2, 1934
Comebacks
3
Apr 1934 · Oct 1947, after 13 quiet years · Jul 1951

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

5 books · 285 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Proud Destiny#318120.8
The Oppermanns#1890.9
This Is the Hour#71360.2
Josephus#3111.0
Tis Folly to Be Wise#1611.8

At their peak

1947 in books

Lion Feuchtwanger's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1947 to February 1948. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Laura Z. Hobson393
  2. 2Thomas B. Costain337
  3. 3Russell Janney273
  4. 4Ben Ames Williams271
  5. 5Kenneth Roberts258
  6. 6Frank Yerby227
  7. 7Willard Motley211
  8. 8Sinclair Lewis193
  9. 9John Steinbeck182
  10. 10Marcia Davenport168

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.