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Richard Llewellyn

Charting Feb 19, 1940Oct 8, 1961 · 53 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    13 crowns

    19401961

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
How Green Was My Valley#135444.9
None but the Lonely Heart#4545.4
Chez Pavan#10823.5
A Man in a Mirror#11513.4

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:

  1. 1Richard Llewellyn445
  2. 2Christopher Morley293
  3. 3Sholem Asch282
  4. 4F. Van Wyck Mason206
  5. 5W. Somerset Maugham176
  6. 6Lin Yutang160
  7. 7Louis Bromfield159
  8. 8Ethel Vance146
  9. 9Jan Struther144
  10. 10Henry Bellamann135

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.