Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Louis Bromfield
Charting May 9, 1932 → Nov 25, 1951 · 99 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 crown
19321951First crown May 1932
- Peak Power
- 8.92%
- week of Mar 7, 1938
- Career Power
- 895
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 1
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 263
- May 1937 – May 1938
- Peak Five Years
- 573
- August 1937 – August 1942
- Top-five weeks
- 74
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 99
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of May 9, 1932
- Comebacks
- 4
- Aug 1933 · Nov 1937 · Jun 1940 · Dec 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
11 books · 895 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 Rains Came | #3 | 28 | 263.5 | ||
| Mrs. Parkington | #2 | 14 | 143.5 | ||
| Night in Bombay | #2 | 13 | 136.3 | ||
| Until the Day Break | #2 | 9 | 92.5 | ||
| The Farm | #2 | 5 | 61.6 | ||
| Wild Is the River | #5 | 7 | 57.3 | ||
| A Modern Hero | #1 | 4 | 50.8 | ||
| Mr. Smith | #7 | 12 | 42.2 | ||
| It Takes All Kinds | #4 | 3 | 23.2 | ||
| The Man Who Had Everything | #7 | 3 | 18.2 | ||
| Here Today and Gone Tomorrow | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1937 in books →Louis Bromfield's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1937 to May 1938. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Kenneth Roberts563
- 2A. J. Cronin499
- 3Louis Bromfield263
- 4Vaughan Wilkins199
- 5Millen Brand154
- 6Virginia Woolf149
- 7Michael Foster136
- 8Margaret Mitchell129
- 9Hervey Allen118
- 10Ann Bridge108
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.