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Josephine Lawrence

Charting Jul 9, 1934Feb 21, 1938 · 16 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19341938

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Jan–Feb 1936) · First crown Jan 1936

Peak Power
6.67%
week of Mar 2, 1936
Career Power
145
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
97
March 1935 – March 1936
Peak Five Years
145
March 1933 – February 1938
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jan 20, 1936
Comebacks
1
Jan 1936

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

4 books · 145 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
If I Have Four Apples#1997.1
Years Are So Long#4535.0
The Sound of Running Feet#716.3
Bow Down to Wood and Stone#716.3

At their peak

1935 in books

Josephine Lawrence's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1935 to March 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Lloyd C. Douglas336
  2. 2Thomas Wolfe267
  3. 3Robert Briffault262
  4. 4Sinclair Lewis240
  5. 5Ellen Glasgow187
  6. 6Humphrey Cobb168
  7. 7Mazo de la Roche143
  8. 8Edna Ferber141
  9. 9Rachel Field134
  10. 10Willa Cather123

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.