Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
David Pilgrim
Charting Oct 18, 1937 → Oct 25, 1937 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.50%
- week of Oct 25, 1937
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- November 1936 – October 1937
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- November 1932 – October 1937
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Oct 18, 1937
- 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
1 book · 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| So Great a Man | #6 | 2 | 14.5 |
At their peak
1936 in books →David Pilgrim's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1936 to October 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Margaret Mitchell513
- 2Walter D. Edmonds371
- 3Kenneth Roberts229
- 4Virginia Woolf226
- 5Somerset Maugham196
- 6Millen Brand189
- 7Vaughan Wilkins151
- 8Alice Tisdale Hobart141
- 9Michael Foster136
- 10John P. Marquand125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.