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Charting Jul 3, 1933Dec 19, 1948 · 123 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    35 crowns

    19331948

    Longest reign 28 weeks (Jul 1933 – Jan 1934) · First crown Jul 1933

Peak Power
13.95%
week of Jan 8, 1934
Career Power
1,328
share-weeks
Crowns
35
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
703
July 1933 – June 1934
Peak Five Years
1,115
June 1933 – May 1938
Top-five weeks
105
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
123
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jul 3, 1933
Comebacks
4
Oct 1936 · Apr 1938 · May 1943, after 5 quiet years · Oct 1948, 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

5 books · 1,328 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
Anthony Adverse#186997.5
Action at Aquila#111117.6
Toward the Morning#315108.5
The Forest and the Fort#3660.5
Bedford Village#4544.2

At their peak

1933 in books

Hervey Allen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1933 to June 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Hervey Allen703
  2. 2Sinclair Lewis148
  3. 3John Galsworthy100
  4. 4Margaret Ayer Barnes97
  5. 5Lion Feuchtwanger91
  6. 6Caroline Miller85
  7. 7Dashiell Hammett84
  8. 8Isak Dinesen83
  9. 9James Joyce81
  10. 10Hans Fallada71

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.