Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Isak Dinesen
Charting Apr 23, 1934 → Jan 19, 1958 · 18 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
19341958First crown Apr 1934
- Peak Power
- 5.24%
- week of Jun 25, 1934
- Career Power
- 115
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 83
- July 1933 – June 1934
- Peak Five Years
- 83
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 18
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Apr 30, 1934
- Comebacks
- 1
- Dec 1957, after 23 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
2 books · 115 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seven Gothic Tales | #1 | 9 | 83.0 | ||
| Last Tales | #9 | 9 | 32.3 |
At their peak
1933 in books →Isak Dinesen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1933 to June 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Hervey Allen703
- 2Sinclair Lewis148
- 3John Galsworthy100
- 4Margaret Ayer Barnes97
- 5Lion Feuchtwanger91
- 6Caroline Miller85
- 7Dashiell Hammett84
- 8Isak Dinesen83
- 9James Joyce81
- 10Hans Fallada71
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.