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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Charting Apr 11, 1938May 10, 1953 · 60 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    12 crowns

    19381953

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Yearling#142499.8
The Sojourner#51681.7
When the Whippoorwill#6214.5

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:

  1. 1Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings486
  2. 2A. J. Cronin470
  3. 3Howard Spring382
  4. 4Kenneth Roberts231
  5. 5Daphne Du Maurier214
  6. 6Phyllis Bottome181
  7. 7Rachel Field159
  8. 8Louis Bromfield134
  9. 9Hervey Allen118
  10. 10Mary Roberts Rinehart99

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.