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Frederic Prokosch

Charting Sep 6, 1937Aug 21, 1955 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.47%
week of Sep 20, 1937
Career Power
35
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
32
November 1936 – October 1937
Peak Five Years
32
November 1932 – October 1937
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Sep 13, 1937
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

2 books · 35 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
The Seven Who Fled#4431.5
A Tale for Midnight#1623.6

At their peak

1936 in books

Frederic Prokosch's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1936 to October 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Margaret Mitchell513
  2. 2Walter D. Edmonds371
  3. 3Kenneth Roberts229
  4. 4Virginia Woolf226
  5. 5Somerset Maugham196
  6. 6Millen Brand189
  7. 7Vaughan Wilkins151
  8. 8Alice Tisdale Hobart141
  9. 9Michael Foster136
  10. 10John P. Marquand125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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