Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Vardis Fisher
Charting Sep 4, 1939 → Sep 2, 1956 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.70%
- week of Oct 23, 1939
- Career Power
- 91
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 83
- November 1938 – November 1939
- Peak Five Years
- 83
- December 1934 – November 1939
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Sep 25, 1939
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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 · 91 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children of God | #2 | 9 | 83.2 | ||
| Pemmican | #15 | 4 | 8.1 |
At their peak
1938 in books →Vardis Fisher's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1938 to November 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Rachel Field433
- 2John Steinbeck428
- 3Daphne Du Maurier276
- 4John P. Marquand187
- 5F. Van Wyck Mason138
- 6Elizabeth Page136
- 7Thomas Wolfe127
- 8Pietro di Donato114
- 9Lloyd C. Douglas114
- 10Rumer Godden111
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.