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Faith Baldwin

Charting Jun 6, 1932Jan 21, 1935 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    19321935

    First crown Jun 1932

Peak Power
3.71%
week of Jun 20, 1932
Career Power
68
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
62
January 1932 – January 1933
Peak Five Years
68
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jun 6, 1932
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

3 books · 68 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
District Nurse#1338.2
Beauty#2223.7
American Family#815.7

At their peak

1932 in books

Faith Baldwin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1932 to January 1933. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Charles Morgan245
  2. 2Pearl S. Buck191
  3. 3Booth Tarkington127
  4. 4John Galsworthy116
  5. 5Louis Golding94
  6. 6Ellen Glasgow94
  7. 7Faith Baldwin62
  8. 8Julia Peterkin60
  9. 9Thorne Smith57
  10. 10Phyllis Bentley55

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.