Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Erskine Caldwell
Charting Jul 1, 1935 → Jul 1, 1935 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.60%
- week of Jul 1, 1935
- Career Power
- 6
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 6
- July 1934 – July 1935
- Peak Five Years
- 6
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Jul 1, 1935
- 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 · 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kneel to the Rising Sun | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1934 in books →Erskine Caldwell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1934 to July 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Hilton545
- 2Stark Young343
- 3Franz Werfel229
- 4Thomas Wolfe188
- 5Lloyd C. Douglas184
- 6Caroline Miller179
- 7Edna Ferber156
- 8Hervey Allen152
- 9Thornton Wilder148
- 10Robert Graves116
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.