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Philip Van Doren Stern

Charting Sep 14, 1942Sep 14, 1942 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.91%
week of Sep 14, 1942
Career Power
8
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
8
September 1941 – September 1942
Peak Five Years
8
September 1937 – September 1942
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Sep 14, 1942
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 · 8 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
The Drums of Morning#518.3

At their peak

1941 in books

Philip Van Doren Stern's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1941 to September 1942. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1A. J. Cronin296
  2. 2Marguerite Steen283
  3. 3Mary Ellen Chase248
  4. 4Pearl S. Buck239
  5. 5John Steinbeck234
  6. 6Franz Werfel210
  7. 7Rachel Field196
  8. 8Edna Ferber159
  9. 9Louis Bromfield150
  10. 10Daphne Du Maurier106

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1940s.