Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard Llewellyn
Charting Feb 19, 1940 → Oct 8, 1961 · 53 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
13 crowns
19401961Longest reign 11 weeks (Mar–Jun 1940) · First crown Mar 1940
- Peak Power
- 12.45%
- week of Aug 5, 1940
- Career Power
- 527
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 13
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 445
- October 1939 – October 1940
- Peak Five Years
- 490
- November 1938 – November 1943
- Top-five weeks
- 39
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 53
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Mar 4, 1940
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 books · 527 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How Green Was My Valley | #1 | 35 | 444.9 | ||
| None but the Lonely Heart | #4 | 5 | 45.4 | ||
| Chez Pavan | #10 | 8 | 23.5 | ||
| A Man in a Mirror | #11 | 5 | 13.4 |
At their peak
1939 in books →Richard Llewellyn'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
- 7Louis Bromfield159
- 8Ethel Vance146
- 9Jan Struther144
- 10Henry Bellamann135
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.