Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Maritta Wolf
Charting May 26, 1941 → Jul 21, 1941 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.78%
- week of Jul 21, 1941
- Career Power
- 81
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 81
- July 1940 – July 1941
- Peak Five Years
- 81
- August 1936 – July 1941
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Jun 2, 1941
- 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 · 81 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whistle Stop | #3 | 9 | 80.6 |
At their peak
1940 in books →Maritta Wolf's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1940 to July 1941. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Jan Struther327
- 2James Hilton322
- 3Ernest Hemingway290
- 4Kenneth Roberts268
- 5Eric Knight201
- 6Nina Fedorova144
- 7J. P. Marquand140
- 8Ellen Glasgow135
- 9Richard Llewellyn130
- 10Willa Cather115
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.