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Enid Bagnold

Charting May 6, 1935Mar 25, 1951 · 22 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.52%
week of Jul 29, 1935
Career Power
167
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
120
August 1934 – August 1935
Peak Five Years
120
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
22
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of May 13, 1935
Comebacks
1
Feb 1951, after 15 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 · 167 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
National Velvet#213120.3
The Loved and Envied#6946.8

At their peak

1934 in books

Enid Bagnold's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1934 to August 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Hilton519
  2. 2Stark Young329
  3. 3Lloyd C. Douglas251
  4. 4Franz Werfel238
  5. 5Thomas Wolfe233
  6. 6Edna Ferber156
  7. 7Thornton Wilder148
  8. 8Humphrey Cobb123
  9. 9Enid Bagnold120
  10. 10Mazo de la Roche116

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.