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
Weeks at #1: 0; weeks as the top author

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; March 1935, January 1938, January 1940

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After decline	Aug 7, 1933	Mar 4, 1935	82	80	4.89%	1.80%
After decline	Apr 22, 1935	Jan 31, 1938	145	74	4.89%	1.72%
After decline	Mar 21, 1938	Jan 22, 1940	96	95	4.89%	1.75%

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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	#3February 1940	9	January 1940 – March 1940	82.0	82.0
One More Spring	#2March 1933	6	March 1933 – May 1933	72.6	72.6
Road of Ages	#4February 1935	3	February 1935 – March 1935	26.0	25.2
Winter in April	#5January 1938	3	January 1938 – February 1938	25.0	25.0
They Went on Together	#5May 1941	2	April 1941 – May 1941	15.6	15.6
A Star in the Wind	#13March 1962	3	February 1962 – March 1962	7.0	7.0
The Enchanted Voyage	#8September 1936	1	September 1936	5.5	5.5
Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star	#15April 1947	1	April 1947	2.1	2.1