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Kathleen Norris

Charting Mar 28, 1932Sep 15, 1941 · 17 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The American Flaggs#4750.6
The Venables#5215.6
You Can't Have Everything#5213.9
Walls of Gold#2112.7
Second-Hand Wife#3111.0
Younger Sister#3111.0
Wife for Sale#3111.0
Shining Windows#419.6
Three Men and Diana#815.5

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:

  1. 1Sinclair Lewis337
  2. 2George Santayana330
  3. 3Margaret Mitchell212
  4. 4Robert Briffault191
  5. 5Charles Morgan179
  6. 6Mary Roberts Rinehart151
  7. 7Aldous Huxley143
  8. 8Walter D. Edmonds117
  9. 9Rebecca West112
  10. 10Ellen Glasgow107

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.