Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Vicki Baum
Charting Mar 14, 1932 → Aug 3, 1958 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.52%
- week of Sep 4, 1939
- Career Power
- 43
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- September 1938 – September 1939
- Peak Five Years
- 30
- March 1937 – March 1942
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Mar 14, 1932
- Comebacks
- 1
- Sep 1939, 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 · 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai '37 | #5 | 2 | 14.7 | ||
| And Life Goes On | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| Tale of Bali | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| Marion Alive | #6 | 1 | 7.3 | ||
| Theme for Ballet | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1938 in books →Vicki Baum's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1938 to September 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Rachel Field484
- 2Daphne Du Maurier381
- 3John Steinbeck287
- 4Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings210
- 5John P. Marquand187
- 6Howard Spring184
- 7F. Van Wyck Mason138
- 8Elizabeth Page136
- 9Thomas Wolfe118
- 10Lloyd C. Douglas114
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.