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George Santayana portraitGeorge Santayana

Charting Feb 10, 1936Sep 14, 1936 · 29 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    11 crowns

    19361936

    Longest reign 11 weeks (Feb–Apr 1936) · First crown Feb 1936

Peak Power
11.41%
week of May 25, 1936
Career Power
330
share-weeks
Crowns
11
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
330
September 1935 – September 1936
Peak Five Years
330
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
25
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
29
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Feb 10, 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 · 330 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 Last Puritan#129329.5

At their peak

1935 in books

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

  1. 1Sinclair Lewis337
  2. 2George Santayana330
  3. 3Robert Briffault249
  4. 4Charles Morgan179
  5. 5Ellen Glasgow158
  6. 6Margaret Mitchell154
  7. 7Mary Roberts Rinehart151
  8. 8Rebecca West112
  9. 9Aldous Huxley107
  10. 10Vincent Sheean104

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.