Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Margaret Mitchell

Charting Jul 6, 1936 → Jan 19, 1992 · 78 weeks with chart power

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Image credits

Photo: New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Aumuller, Al, photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Author of the Year: 1936
1937

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
33 crowns
19361992
Longest reign 32 weeks (Jul 1936 – Feb 1937) · First crown Jul 1936

Peak Power: 14.19%; week of Feb 15, 1937
Career Power: 819; share-weeks
Crowns: 33; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 677; July 1936 – June 1937
Peak Five Years: 773; December 1933 – November 1938
Top-five weeks: 60; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 78; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Jul 13, 1936
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 · 819 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
Gone with the Wind	#1July 1936	78	July 1936 – January 1992	819.2	819.2

At their peak

1936 in books →

Margaret Mitchell's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1936 to June 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s.