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NYT Hardcover Fiction

Author of the Year 1933

Hervey Allen

26 crowns · 26 weeks among the top five authors · Era Power 378

Top authors of 1933

#	Author	Era Power	Crowns	Top-five weeks
1	Hervey Allen	378	26	26
2	Sinclair Lewis	172	11	12
3	GCGladys Hasty Carroll	129	4	10
4	JGJohn Galsworthy	129	2	10
5	Hans Fallada	115	3	9
6	JCJames G. Cozzens	91	2	7
7	Robert Nathan	73	0	6
8	S. S. Van Dine	68	0	6
9	Louis Bromfield	62	0	5
10	TSThorne Smith	60	1	5

Every #1 bestseller of 19339 books reached #1 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list

First week at #1	Title	Author	Weeks at #1
Jan 2, 1933	Flowering Wilderness	John Galsworthy	2
Jan 16, 1933	The Last Adam	James G. Cozzens	2
Jan 30, 1933	Ann Vickers	Sinclair Lewis	11
Apr 17, 1933	The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore	2
Apr 24, 1933	Rain in the Doorway	Thorne Smith	1
May 8, 1933	As the Earth Turns	Gladys Hasty Carroll	4
May 22, 1933	The Store	T. S. Stribling	1
Jun 12, 1933	Little Man, What Now?	Hans Fallada	3
Jul 3, 1933	Anthony Adverse	Hervey Allen	26

Biggest books of 1933Titles that entered the list in 1933, by Book Power

#	Title	Author	Peak	Weeks	Book Power
1	Anthony Adverse	Hervey Allen	#1	86	996.2
2	Ann Vickers	Sinclair Lewis	#1	12	172.4
3	As the Earth Turns	Gladys Hasty Carroll	#1	10	129.1
4	Little Man, What Now?	Hans Fallada	#1	9	114.5
5	One More River	John Galsworthy	#2	8	99.5
6	Within This Present	Margaret Ayer Barnes	#2	10	96.6
7	The Last Adam	James G. Cozzens	#1	7	90.6
8	One More Spring	Robert Nathan	#2	6	72.6
9	The Farm	Louis Bromfield	#2	5	61.6
10	The Werewolf of Paris	Guy Endore	#1	4	52.7

Author of the Year and the rankings are the ChartReign Power model: the author with the most chart power over the year, not the most #1s. Crowns are weeks crowned Author of the Week. How it works