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F. Scott Fitzgerald portraitF. Scott Fitzgerald

Charting Apr 23, 1934May 21, 1934 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    19341934

    First crown May 1934

Peak Power
4.19%
week of May 21, 1934
Career Power
49
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
49
May 1933 – May 1934
Peak Five Years
49
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of May 7, 1934
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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Tender Is the Night#1548.8

At their peak

1933 in books

F. Scott Fitzgerald's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1933 to May 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Hervey Allen645
  2. 2Sinclair Lewis148
  3. 3Hans Fallada115
  4. 4Mary Roberts Rinehart104
  5. 5John Galsworthy100
  6. 6Margaret Ayer Barnes97
  7. 7Lion Feuchtwanger91
  8. 8Gladys Hasty Carroll87
  9. 9Dashiell Hammett84
  10. 10James Joyce81

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.