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Millen Brand

Charting May 10, 1937Sep 6, 1937 · 17 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    7 crowns

    19371937

    Longest reign 5 weeks (Jun–Jul 1937) · First crown May 1937

Peak Power
9.14%
week of Aug 9, 1937
Career Power
189
share-weeks
Crowns
7
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
189
September 1936 – September 1937
Peak Five Years
189
September 1932 – September 1937
Top-five weeks
13
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of May 17, 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 · 189 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 Outward Room#117189.0

At their peak

1936 in books

Millen Brand'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 Mitchell594
  2. 2Walter D. Edmonds460
  3. 3Virginia Woolf226
  4. 4Somerset Maugham196
  5. 5Millen Brand189
  6. 6Lloyd C. Douglas142
  7. 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
  8. 8Kenneth Roberts129
  9. 9Hervey Allen125
  10. 10John P. Marquand125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.