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Humphrey Cobb portraitHumphrey Cobb

Charting Jun 10, 1935Oct 14, 1935 · 14 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    19351935

    Longest reign 6 weeks (Jun–Jul 1935) · First crown Jun 1935

Peak Power
9.45%
week of Aug 19, 1935
Career Power
168
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
168
October 1934 – October 1935
Peak Five Years
168
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
12
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jun 17, 1935
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 · 168 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
Paths of Glory#114168.2

At their peak

1934 in books

Humphrey Cobb's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1934 to October 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Hilton436
  2. 2Lloyd C. Douglas323
  3. 3Thomas Wolfe267
  4. 4Franz Werfel244
  5. 5Stark Young184
  6. 6Humphrey Cobb168
  7. 7Edna Ferber156
  8. 8Thornton Wilder148
  9. 9Mazo de la Roche143
  10. 10Rachel Field134

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.