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Michael Foster

Charting Jun 28, 1937Sep 20, 1937 · 13 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
American Dream#213136.2

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:

  1. 1Margaret Mitchell586
  2. 2Walter D. Edmonds435
  3. 3Virginia Woolf226
  4. 4Somerset Maugham196
  5. 5Millen Brand189
  6. 6Kenneth Roberts158
  7. 7Lloyd C. Douglas142
  8. 8Alice Tisdale Hobart141
  9. 9Michael Foster136
  10. 10John P. Marquand125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.