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Richard Wright

Charting Mar 11, 1940 → May 9, 2021 · 12 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    19402021

    First crown Mar 1940

Peak Power
7.13%
week of May 13, 1940
Career Power
119
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
116
June 1939 – May 1940
Peak Five Years
116
June 1935 – May 1940
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
12
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Mar 18, 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

2 books · 119 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
Native Son#111115.6
The Man Who Lived Underground#1213.2

At their peak

1939 in books →

Richard Wright's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1939 to May 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Steinbeck374
  2. 2Christopher Morley293
  3. 3Sholem Asch282
  4. 4Richard Llewellyn212
  5. 5Ethel Vance183
  6. 6Lin Yutang160
  7. 7Thomas Wolfe127
  8. 8Richard Wright116
  9. 9Pietro di Donato114
  10. 10W. Somerset Maugham114

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s.