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Fannie Hurst portraitFannie Hurst

Charting Feb 13, 1933Jan 14, 1962 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.58%
week of Apr 16, 1934
Career Power
48
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
27
April 1933 – April 1934
Peak Five Years
38
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
4
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Feb 13, 1933
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

4 books · 48 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
Anitra's Dance#3326.9
Imitation of Life#3111.0
Lonely Parade#518.3
God Must Be Sad#1512.1

At their peak

1933 in books

Fannie Hurst's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1933 to April 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Hervey Allen581
  2. 2Sinclair Lewis142
  3. 3Gladys Hasty Carroll129
  4. 4Hans Fallada115
  5. 5Mary Roberts Rinehart104
  6. 6John Galsworthy100
  7. 7Margaret Ayer Barnes97
  8. 8Dashiell Hammett84
  9. 9James Joyce81
  10. 10Louis Bromfield67

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.