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Josephine Johnson

Charting May 13, 1935Jun 24, 1935 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19351935

    Longest reign 3 weeks (May–Jun 1935) · First crown May 1935

Peak Power
5.68%
week of Jun 24, 1935
Career Power
74
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
74
July 1934 – June 1935
Peak Five Years
74
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of May 20, 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 · 74 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
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At their peak

1934 in books

Josephine Johnson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1934 to June 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Hilton545
  2. 2Stark Young343
  3. 3Franz Werfel229
  4. 4Caroline Miller194
  5. 5Thomas Wolfe181
  6. 6Lloyd C. Douglas171
  7. 7Hervey Allen161
  8. 8Edna Ferber156
  9. 9Thornton Wilder148
  10. 10Robert Graves128

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.