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Myron Brinig

Charting Feb 22, 1937Dec 16, 1945 · 14 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.61%
week of Apr 19, 1937
Career Power
99
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
73
May 1936 – May 1937
Peak Five Years
97
August 1936 – July 1941
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
14
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Mar 8, 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

4 books · 99 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 Sisters#21072.8
May Flavin#5215.6
All of Their Lives#518.3
You and I#1512.1

At their peak

1936 in books

Myron Brinig's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1936 to May 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Margaret Mitchell592
  2. 2Walter D. Edmonds468
  3. 3Mary Roberts Rinehart151
  4. 4Aldous Huxley149
  5. 5George Santayana144
  6. 6Lloyd C. Douglas142
  7. 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
  8. 8Charles Morgan140
  9. 9Hervey Allen133
  10. 10John P. Marquand125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.