Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Michael Foster
Charting Jun 28, 1937 → Sep 20, 1937 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.92%
- week of Sep 13, 1937
- Career Power
- 136
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 136
- September 1936 – September 1937
- Peak Five Years
- 136
- October 1932 – September 1937
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Jul 5, 1937
- 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 · 136 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Dream | #2 | 13 | 136.2 |
At their peak
1936 in books →Michael Foster's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1936 to September 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Margaret Mitchell586
- 2Walter D. Edmonds435
- 3Virginia Woolf226
- 4Somerset Maugham196
- 5Millen Brand189
- 6Kenneth Roberts158
- 7Lloyd C. Douglas142
- 8Alice Tisdale Hobart141
- 9Michael Foster136
- 10John P. Marquand125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.