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Pietro di Donato portraitPietro di Donato

Charting Sep 4, 1939Nov 13, 1939 · 11 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
7.04%
week of Nov 13, 1939
Career Power
114
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
114
November 1938 – November 1939
Peak Five Years
114
November 1934 – November 1939
Top-five weeks
9
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
11
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Sep 11, 1939
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 · 114 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
Christ in Concrete#211114.4

At their peak

1938 in books

Pietro di Donato's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1938 to November 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rachel Field446
  2. 2John Steinbeck420
  3. 3Daphne Du Maurier290
  4. 4John P. Marquand187
  5. 5F. Van Wyck Mason138
  6. 6Elizabeth Page136
  7. 7Thomas Wolfe127
  8. 8Pietro di Donato114
  9. 9Lloyd C. Douglas114
  10. 10Rumer Godden111

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.