Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Elmer Rice
Charting Nov 22, 1937 → Jan 31, 1938 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.40%
- week of Dec 20, 1937
- Career Power
- 49
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 49
- February 1937 – January 1938
- Peak Five Years
- 49
- February 1933 – January 1938
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Dec 20, 1937
- 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
1 book · 49 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial City | #4 | 7 | 49.0 |
At their peak
1937 in books →Elmer Rice's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1937 to January 1938. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Kenneth Roberts406
- 2Margaret Mitchell310
- 3A. J. Cronin278
- 4Virginia Woolf226
- 5Vaughan Wilkins199
- 6Somerset Maugham196
- 7Walter D. Edmonds194
- 8Millen Brand189
- 9Louis Bromfield150
- 10Michael Foster136
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.