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Gladys Hasty Carroll

Charting May 8, 1933Dec 4, 1949 · 20 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    19331949

    Longest reign 2 weeks (May 1933) · First crown May 1933

Peak Power
7.96%
week of Jul 17, 1933
Career Power
172
share-weeks
Crowns
4
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
129
July 1932 – July 1933
Peak Five Years
149
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
11
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
20
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of May 8, 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

3 books · 172 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
As the Earth Turns#110129.1
West of the Hill#10722.4
A Few Foolish Ones#5320.2

At their peak

1932 in books

Gladys Hasty Carroll's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1932 to July 1933. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Sinclair Lewis172
  2. 2Charles Morgan158
  3. 3Gladys Hasty Carroll129
  4. 4John Galsworthy116
  5. 5Thorne Smith106
  6. 6Ellen Glasgow94
  7. 7James G. Cozzens91
  8. 8Pearl S. Buck87
  9. 9Hans Fallada80
  10. 10Robert Nathan73

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.