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Laura Krey

Charting Sep 5, 1938Oct 24, 1938 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
5.86%
week of Oct 24, 1938
Career Power
80
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
80
November 1937 – October 1938
Peak Five Years
80
November 1933 – October 1938
Top-five weeks
8
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Sep 5, 1938
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 · 80 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.

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At their peak

1937 in books

Laura Krey's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1937 to October 1938. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1A. J. Cronin578
  2. 2Kenneth Roberts384
  3. 3Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings379
  4. 4Howard Spring293
  5. 5Louis Bromfield263
  6. 6Phyllis Bottome181
  7. 7Hervey Allen118
  8. 8Ann Bridge108
  9. 9Mary Roberts Rinehart99
  10. 10Sinclair Lewis85

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.