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Charting Aug 27, 1934Dec 17, 1944 · 54 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    8 crowns

    19341944

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Apr 1937) · First crown Mar 1937

Peak Power
12.06%
week of Oct 22, 1944
Career Power
603
share-weeks
Crowns
8
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
379
December 1943 – December 1944
Peak Five Years
379
January 1940 – December 1944
Top-five weeks
44
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
54
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Mar 22, 1937
Comebacks
1
May 1944, after 7 quiet years

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

5 books · 603 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
The Razor's Edge#131379.0
Theatre#119196.1
Teller of Tales#6213.6
East and West#518.3
Cosmopolitans#716.3

At their peak

1943 in books

Somerset Maugham's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1943 to December 1944. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Lillian Smith429
  2. 2Betty Smith419
  3. 3Somerset Maugham379
  4. 4John Hersey289
  5. 5Lloyd C. Douglas273
  6. 6Elizabeth Goudge134
  7. 7John P. Marquand121
  8. 8Joseph S. Pennell117
  9. 9Ben Ames Williams111
  10. 10Kathleen Winsor102

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.