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Mazo de la Roche

Charting Oct 12, 1931Nov 4, 1951 · 37 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    2 crowns

    19311951

    First crown Aug 1932

Peak Power
7.92%
week of Aug 19, 1935
Career Power
296
share-weeks
Crowns
2
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
143
September 1934 – August 1935
Peak Five Years
226
December 1931 – December 1936
Top-five weeks
20
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
37
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Aug 22, 1932
Comebacks
2
May 1935 · Mar 1949, after 12 quiet years

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

8 books · 296 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
Young Renny#113142.8
Mary Wakefield#71049.8
Whiteoak Harvest#3543.6
The Whiteoaks of Jaina#3324.9
Lark Ascending#1114.5
Finche's Fortune#2112.7
Return to Jalna#1635.5
Renny's Daughter#1412.4

At their peak

1934 in books

Mazo de la Roche's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1934 to August 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Hilton494
  2. 2Stark Young285
  3. 3Lloyd C. Douglas282
  4. 4Thomas Wolfe262
  5. 5Franz Werfel244
  6. 6Edna Ferber156
  7. 7Humphrey Cobb155
  8. 8Thornton Wilder148
  9. 9Mazo de la Roche143
  10. 10Rachel Field134

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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