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Thornton Wilder

Charting Jan 7, 1935 → Apr 7, 1974 · 78 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
9 crowns
19351974
Longest reign 2 weeks (Feb 1935) · First crown Jan 1935

Peak Power: 11.44%; week of Aug 27, 1967
Career Power: 783; share-weeks
Crowns: 9; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 320; November 1966 – October 1967
Peak Five Years: 320; October 1962 – October 1967
Top-five weeks: 57; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 78; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 15.20%; week of Feb 25, 1935
Comebacks: 3; Apr 1948, after 13 quiet years · May 1967, after 19 quiet years · Dec 1973, 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

4 books · 783 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 Eighth Day	#1June 1967	28	April 1967 – October 1967	319.6	319.6
Theophilus North	#4December 1973	21	November 1973 – April 1974	157.8	157.8
The Ides of March	#1April 1948	17	March 1948 – June 1948	157.0	157.0
Heaven's My Destination	#1January 1935	12	January 1935 – March 1935	148.1	144.3

At their peak

1966 in books →

Thornton Wilder's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1966 to October 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.