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Hugh Walpole

Charting Sep 19, 1932Aug 25, 1941 · 25 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.35%
week of Dec 14, 1936
Career Power
224
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
79
October 1936 – October 1937
Peak Five Years
181
October 1932 – October 1937
Top-five weeks
16
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Sep 25, 1933
Comebacks
2
Nov 1936 · Aug 1941

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

9 books · 224 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
A Prayer for My Son#3864.5
Captain Nicholas#2443.4
Vanessa#2337.9
The Inquisitor#5320.2
The Blind Man's House#5216.7
John Corneliius#5214.7
The Fortress#3111.0
Sea Tower#518.3
The Joyful Delaneys#617.3

At their peak

1936 in books

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

  1. 1Margaret Mitchell542
  2. 2Walter D. Edmonds397
  3. 3Virginia Woolf226
  4. 4Kenneth Roberts200
  5. 5Somerset Maugham196
  6. 6Millen Brand189
  7. 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
  8. 8Michael Foster136
  9. 9Lloyd C. Douglas134
  10. 10Vaughan Wilkins129

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.