Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Robert Nathan
Charting Mar 6, 1933 → Mar 18, 1962 · 28 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.13%
- week of Mar 25, 1940
- Career Power
- 236
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 82
- April 1939 – March 1940
- Peak Five Years
- 129
- February 1933 – February 1938
- Top-five weeks
- 19
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 28
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Mar 6, 1933
- Comebacks
- 3
- Mar 1935 · Jan 1938 · Jan 1940
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
8 books · 236 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait of Jennie | #3 | 9 | 82.0 | ||
| One More Spring | #2 | 6 | 72.6 | ||
| Road of Ages | #4 | 3 | 26.0 | ||
| Winter in April | #5 | 3 | 25.0 | ||
| They Went on Together | #5 | 2 | 15.6 | ||
| A Star in the Wind | #13 | 3 | 7.0 | ||
| The Enchanted Voyage | #8 | 1 | 5.5 | ||
| Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1939 in books →Robert Nathan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1939 to March 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Steinbeck458
- 2Sholem Asch264
- 3Christopher Morley250
- 4Ethel Vance183
- 5Rachel Field179
- 6John P. Marquand175
- 7Lin Yutang160
- 8Thomas Wolfe127
- 9C. S. Forester123
- 10Pietro di Donato114
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.