Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William Saroyan
Charting Oct 29, 1934 → Jul 14, 1946 · 18 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.30%
- week of Jun 7, 1943
- Career Power
- 175
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 160
- June 1942 – June 1943
- Peak Five Years
- 167
- July 1941 – July 1946
- Top-five weeks
- 16
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 18
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Mar 29, 1943
- 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
3 books · 175 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 Human Comedy | #2 | 15 | 159.6 | ||
| The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze | #6 | 1 | 7.7 | ||
| The Adventures of Wesley Jackson | #10 | 2 | 7.3 |
At their peak
1942 in books →William Saroyan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1942 to June 1943. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Franz Werfel434
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas432
- 3Marcia Davenport411
- 4Nancy Hale228
- 5Louis Bromfield204
- 6Rachel Field193
- 7William Saroyan160
- 8Helen MacInnes135
- 9Dorothy Macardle73
- 10Anna Seghers72
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.