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Robert Nathan portraitRobert Nathan

Charting Mar 6, 1933Mar 18, 1962 · 28 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Portrait of Jennie#3982.0
One More Spring#2672.6
Road of Ages#4326.0
Winter in April#5325.0
They Went on Together#5215.6
A Star in the Wind#1337.0
The Enchanted Voyage#815.5
Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star#1512.1

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:

  1. 1John Steinbeck458
  2. 2Sholem Asch264
  3. 3Christopher Morley250
  4. 4Ethel Vance183
  5. 5Rachel Field179
  6. 6John P. Marquand175
  7. 7Lin Yutang160
  8. 8Thomas Wolfe127
  9. 9C. S. Forester123
  10. 10Pietro di Donato114

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.