Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Stefan Heym
Charting Oct 26, 1942 → Jan 16, 1949 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.19%
- week of Nov 21, 1948
- Career Power
- 64
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 47
- January 1948 – January 1949
- Peak Five Years
- 47
- January 1944 – January 1949
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Oct 26, 1942
- Comebacks
- 1
- Oct 1948, after 6 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
2 books · 64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Crusaders | #6 | 10 | 46.8 | ||
| Hostages | #5 | 2 | 16.7 |
At their peak
1948 in books →Stefan Heym's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1948 to January 1949. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Norman Mailer438
- 2Ross Lockridge301
- 3Elizabeth Goudge235
- 4F. Van Wyck Mason212
- 5A. J. Cronin203
- 6Ben Ames Williams200
- 7Frances Parkinson Keyes185
- 8Frank Yerby180
- 9Agnes Sligh Turnbull163
- 10Betty Smith162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1940s.