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Ellen Glasgow portraitEllen Glasgow

Charting Sep 5, 1932Jun 30, 1941 · 38 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    5 crowns

    19321941

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Sep 1932) · First crown Sep 1932

Peak Power
8.26%
week of Nov 25, 1935
Career Power
416
share-weeks
Crowns
5
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
187
January 1935 – January 1936
Peak Five Years
281
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
30
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
38
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Sep 12, 1932
Comebacks
2
Sep 1935 · Apr 1941, 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

4 books · 416 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
Vein of Iron#117179.4
In This Our Life#213134.8
The Sheltered Life#1794.2
Men of Iron#617.3

At their peak

1935 in books

Ellen Glasgow's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1935 to January 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Lloyd C. Douglas336
  2. 2Thomas Wolfe267
  3. 3Robert Briffault232
  4. 4James Hilton201
  5. 5Ellen Glasgow187
  6. 6Humphrey Cobb168
  7. 7Franz Werfel162
  8. 8Edna Ferber156
  9. 9Sinclair Lewis151
  10. 10Mazo de la Roche143

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.