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Isak Dinesen portraitIsak Dinesen

Charting Apr 23, 1934Jan 19, 1958 · 18 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    19341958

    First 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Seven Gothic Tales#1983.0
Last Tales#9932.3

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:

  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, the 1950s.