Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
G. B. Lancaster
Charting Feb 20, 1933 → Jun 13, 1938 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.45%
- week of Feb 27, 1933
- Career Power
- 38
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 24
- March 1932 – February 1933
- Peak Five Years
- 24
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Feb 27, 1933
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1938, after 5 quiet years
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 · 38 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.
At their peak
1932 in books →G. B. Lancaster's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1932 to February 1933. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Charles Morgan245
- 2Pearl S. Buck191
- 3John Galsworthy116
- 4Louis Golding94
- 5Ellen Glasgow94
- 6James G. Cozzens91
- 7Sinclair Lewis73
- 8Booth Tarkington71
- 9Faith Baldwin62
- 10Julia Peterkin60
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.