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Dorothy Parker

Charting Nov 13, 1933Jun 19, 1939 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.88%
week of Dec 11, 1933
Career Power
87
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
44
December 1932 – December 1933
Peak Five Years
44
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Nov 13, 1933
Comebacks
1
May 1939, after 5 quiet years

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
After Such Pleasures#3444.0
Here Lies#4543.1

At their peak

1932 in books

Dorothy Parker'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 Allen349
  2. 2Sinclair Lewis172
  3. 3John Galsworthy147
  4. 4Gladys Hasty Carroll129
  5. 5Hans Fallada115
  6. 6James G. Cozzens91
  7. 7Robert Nathan73
  8. 8Thorne Smith71
  9. 9S. S. Van Dine68
  10. 10Louis Bromfield62

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.