Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
W. Somerset Maugham
Charting Oct 30, 1939 → Feb 13, 1949 · 55 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.07%
- week of Jan 8, 1940
- Career Power
- 439
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 176
- September 1939 – September 1940
- Peak Five Years
- 251
- August 1937 – July 1942
- Top-five weeks
- 33
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 55
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Nov 6, 1939
- Comebacks
- 3
- Jul 1942 · Jun 1946 · Dec 1948
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
6 books · 439 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Then and Now | #3 | 15 | 124.7 | ||
| Christmas Holiday | #2 | 11 | 114.1 | ||
| Catalina | #7 | 13 | 63.2 | ||
| The Mixture as Before | #3 | 7 | 62.3 | ||
| Up at the Villa | #5 | 5 | 37.4 | ||
| The Hour Before the Dawn | #3 | 4 | 37.3 |
At their peak
1939 in books →W. Somerset Maugham's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1939 to September 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Richard Llewellyn399
- 2Christopher Morley293
- 3Sholem Asch282
- 4F. Van Wyck Mason188
- 5Ethel Vance183
- 6W. Somerset Maugham176
- 7Lin Yutang160
- 8Louis Bromfield159
- 9John Steinbeck157
- 10Henry Bellamann135
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.