Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Kathleen Norris
Charting Mar 28, 1932 → Sep 15, 1941 · 17 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.92%
- week of Oct 12, 1936
- Career Power
- 141
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 60
- October 1935 – October 1936
- Peak Five Years
- 111
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 9
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 17
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Mar 27, 1933
- Comebacks
- 2
- Oct 1935 · Sep 1941
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
9 books · 141 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The American Flaggs | #4 | 7 | 50.6 | ||
| The Venables | #5 | 2 | 15.6 | ||
| You Can't Have Everything | #5 | 2 | 13.9 | ||
| Walls of Gold | #2 | 1 | 12.7 | ||
| Second-Hand Wife | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| Younger Sister | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| Wife for Sale | #3 | 1 | 11.0 | ||
| Shining Windows | #4 | 1 | 9.6 | ||
| Three Men and Diana | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1935 in books →Kathleen Norris's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1935 to October 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Sinclair Lewis337
- 2George Santayana330
- 3Margaret Mitchell212
- 4Robert Briffault191
- 5Charles Morgan179
- 6Mary Roberts Rinehart151
- 7Aldous Huxley143
- 8Walter D. Edmonds117
- 9Rebecca West112
- 10Ellen Glasgow107
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.