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Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

E. M. Delafield

Charting Jun 25, 1934Mar 16, 1936 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.68%
week of Jul 30, 1934
Career Power
89
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
57
August 1933 – July 1934
Peak Five Years
89
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jul 2, 1934
Comebacks
1
Mar 1936

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 · 89 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
The Provincial Lady in America#3656.6
Faster! Faster!#4432.5

At their peak

1933 in books

E. M. Delafield's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1933 to July 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Hervey Allen685
  2. 2Caroline Miller153
  3. 3Sinclair Lewis148
  4. 4John Galsworthy100
  5. 5Margaret Ayer Barnes97
  6. 6Lion Feuchtwanger91
  7. 7Robert Graves89
  8. 8Dashiell Hammett84
  9. 9Isak Dinesen83
  10. 10James Joyce81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.