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Elizabeth von Arnim

Charting Dec 3, 1934Jul 1, 1940 · 17 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.91%
week of Jun 24, 1940
Career Power
153
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
117
July 1939 – July 1940
Peak Five Years
117
July 1935 – July 1940
Top-five weeks
14
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Apr 22, 1940
Comebacks
1
Apr 1940, 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 · 153 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
Mrs. Skeffington#212116.8
The Jasmine Farm#5536.5

At their peak

1939 in books

Elizabeth von Arnim's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1939 to July 1940. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Steinbeck302
  2. 2Christopher Morley293
  3. 3Sholem Asch282
  4. 4Richard Llewellyn277
  5. 5Ethel Vance183
  6. 6Lin Yutang160
  7. 7Elizabeth von Arnim117
  8. 8Thomas Wolfe116
  9. 9Richard Wright116
  10. 10Pietro di Donato114

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.