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Dorothy Canfield

Charting Dec 4, 1933Mar 20, 1939 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.38%
week of Dec 4, 1933
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
13
December 1932 – December 1933
Peak Five Years
13
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Dec 4, 1933
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 · 19 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
Bonfire#2112.7
Seasoned Timber#716.3

At their peak

1932 in books

Dorothy Canfield's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1932 to December 1933. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Hervey Allen334
  2. 2Sinclair Lewis172
  3. 3John Galsworthy161
  4. 4Gladys Hasty Carroll129
  5. 5Hans Fallada115
  6. 6James G. Cozzens91
  7. 7Thorne Smith82
  8. 8Robert Nathan73
  9. 9S. S. Van Dine68
  10. 10Louis Bromfield62

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.