Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Barry Benefield
Charting Nov 25, 1935 → Aug 7, 1939 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.69%
- week of Jan 13, 1936
- Career Power
- 87
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 77
- January 1935 – January 1936
- Peak Five Years
- 87
- August 1934 – August 1939
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Dec 2, 1935
- 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
2 books · 87 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | #3 | 8 | 77.0 | ||
| April Was When It Began | #4 | 1 | 9.6 |
At their peak
1935 in books →Barry Benefield's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1935 to January 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Lloyd C. Douglas336
- 2Thomas Wolfe267
- 3Robert Briffault241
- 4James Hilton188
- 5Ellen Glasgow187
- 6Humphrey Cobb168
- 7Sinclair Lewis165
- 8Edna Ferber156
- 9Franz Werfel147
- 10Mazo de la Roche143
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.