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Fanny Hurst

Charting Nov 2, 1936Dec 21, 1936 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.81%
week of Dec 21, 1936
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
24
December 1935 – December 1936
Peak Five Years
24
January 1932 – December 1936
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Nov 2, 1936
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 · 24 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
Great Laughter#7423.7

At their peak

1935 in books

Fanny Hurst's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1935 to December 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Margaret Mitchell357
  2. 2George Santayana330
  3. 3Walter D. Edmonds243
  4. 4Sinclair Lewis229
  5. 5Charles Morgan179
  6. 6Mary Roberts Rinehart151
  7. 7Aldous Huxley149
  8. 8Hervey Allen128
  9. 9Rebecca West112
  10. 10Lloyd C. Douglas108

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.