Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Laurence Kirk
Charting Jul 29, 1935 → Aug 5, 1935 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.14%
- week of Aug 5, 1935
- Career Power
- 11
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 11
- August 1934 – August 1935
- Peak Five Years
- 11
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Jul 29, 1935
- 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 · 11 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 Farm at Paranao | #8 | 2 | 11.0 |
At their peak
1934 in books →Laurence Kirk's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1934 to August 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Hilton519
- 2Stark Young329
- 3Lloyd C. Douglas251
- 4Franz Werfel238
- 5Thomas Wolfe233
- 6Edna Ferber156
- 7Thornton Wilder148
- 8Humphrey Cobb123
- 9Enid Bagnold120
- 10Mazo de la Roche116
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.