Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Myron Brinig
Charting Feb 22, 1937 → Dec 16, 1945 · 14 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Sisters | #2 | 10 | 72.8 | ||
| May Flavin | #5 | 2 | 15.6 | ||
| All of Their Lives | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| You and I | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
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:
- 1Margaret Mitchell592
- 2Walter D. Edmonds468
- 3Mary Roberts Rinehart151
- 4Aldous Huxley149
- 5George Santayana144
- 6Lloyd C. Douglas142
- 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
- 8Charles Morgan140
- 9Hervey Allen133
- 10John P. Marquand125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.