Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Kressman Taylor
Charting Feb 13, 1939 → Mar 6, 1939 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.77%
- week of Mar 6, 1939
- Career Power
- 30
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 30
- March 1938 – March 1939
- Peak Five Years
- 30
- March 1934 – March 1939
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Feb 13, 1939
- 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 · 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Address Unknown | #5 | 4 | 30.1 |
At their peak
1938 in books →Kressman Taylor's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1938 to March 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings486
- 2Howard Spring382
- 3A. J. Cronin370
- 4Daphne Du Maurier302
- 5Rachel Field261
- 6Phyllis Bottome209
- 7Kenneth Roberts150
- 8F. Van Wyck Mason122
- 9Hervey Allen118
- 10Mary Roberts Rinehart99
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.