Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
R. C. Hutchinson
Charting Mar 5, 1934 → Mar 27, 1949 · 14 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.48%
- week of Sep 23, 1940
- Career Power
- 83
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 32
- October 1939 – October 1940
- Peak Five Years
- 53
- November 1935 – October 1940
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Sep 23, 1940
- Comebacks
- 2
- Sep 1940 · Mar 1949, after 8 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 · 83 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 Fire and the Wood | #4 | 4 | 32.5 | ||
| Elephant and Castle | #8 | 6 | 23.7 | ||
| Shining Scabbard | #6 | 3 | 20.9 | ||
| The Unforgotten Prisoner | #7 | 1 | 6.3 |
At their peak
1939 in books →R. C. Hutchinson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1939 to October 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Richard Llewellyn445
- 2Christopher Morley293
- 3Sholem Asch282
- 4F. Van Wyck Mason206
- 5W. Somerset Maugham176
- 6Lin Yutang160
- 7Jan Struther159
- 8Louis Bromfield150
- 9Henry Bellamann135
- 10Ethel Vance132
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.