Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Marguerite Steen
Charting Aug 25, 1941 → Jan 16, 1955 · 59 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
19411955First crown Sep 1949
- Peak Power
- 10.41%
- week of Jan 26, 1942
- Career Power
- 494
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 329
- May 1941 – May 1942
- Peak Five Years
- 329
- May 1937 – May 1942
- Top-five weeks
- 37
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 59
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Sep 11, 1949
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 1949, after 7 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
4 books · 494 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 Sun Is My Undoing | #2 | 31 | 328.9 | ||
| Twilight on the Floods | #1 | 16 | 122.4 | ||
| Bell Timson | #7 | 7 | 31.0 | ||
| The Bulls of Parral | #13 | 5 | 11.5 |
At their peak
1941 in books →Marguerite Steen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1941 to May 1942. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin410
- 2Marguerite Steen329
- 3Eric Knight289
- 4Mary Ellen Chase248
- 5Pearl S. Buck199
- 6Edna Ferber159
- 7James Hilton150
- 8John Steinbeck129
- 9Daphne Du Maurier106
- 10Judith Kelly102
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.