Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Charting Apr 11, 1938 → May 10, 1953 · 60 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
12 crowns
19381953Longest reign 8 weeks (May–Jul 1938) · First crown May 1938
- Peak Power
- 12.81%
- week of Sep 19, 1938
- Career Power
- 596
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 12
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 486
- January 1938 – January 1939
- Peak Five Years
- 514
- June 1935 – May 1940
- Top-five weeks
- 40
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 60
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of May 16, 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 →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 books · 596 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 Yearling | #1 | 42 | 499.8 | ||
| The Sojourner | #5 | 16 | 81.7 | ||
| When the Whippoorwill | #6 | 2 | 14.5 |
At their peak
1938 in books →Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1938 to January 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings486
- 2A. J. Cronin470
- 3Howard Spring382
- 4Kenneth Roberts231
- 5Daphne Du Maurier214
- 6Phyllis Bottome181
- 7Rachel Field159
- 8Louis Bromfield134
- 9Hervey Allen118
- 10Mary Roberts Rinehart99
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.