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W. Somerset Maugham portraitW. Somerset Maugham

Charting Oct 30, 1939Feb 13, 1949 · 55 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Then and Now#315124.7
Christmas Holiday#211114.1
Catalina#71363.2
The Mixture as Before#3762.3
Up at the Villa#5537.4
The Hour Before the Dawn#3437.3

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:

  1. 1Richard Llewellyn399
  2. 2Christopher Morley293
  3. 3Sholem Asch282
  4. 4F. Van Wyck Mason188
  5. 5Ethel Vance183
  6. 6W. Somerset Maugham176
  7. 7Lin Yutang160
  8. 8Louis Bromfield159
  9. 9John Steinbeck157
  10. 10Henry Bellamann135

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.