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Rachel Field

Charting Apr 15, 1935Oct 12, 1942 · 74 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    22 crowns

    19351942

    Longest reign 11 weeks (Jan–Mar 1939) · First crown Nov 1938

Peak Power
13.37%
week of Apr 17, 1939
Career Power
851
share-weeks
Crowns
22
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
484
August 1938 – August 1939
Peak Five Years
717
October 1937 – October 1942
Top-five weeks
62
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
74
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Nov 28, 1938
Comebacks
2
Nov 1938 · Jun 1942

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

3 books · 851 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
All This and Heaven Too#138483.8
And Now Tomorrow#119233.3
Time Out of Mind#217133.8

At their peak

1938 in books

Rachel Field's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1938 to August 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rachel Field484
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier381
  3. 3Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings252
  4. 4John Steinbeck243
  5. 5Howard Spring224
  6. 6John P. Marquand187
  7. 7F. Van Wyck Mason138
  8. 8Elizabeth Page136
  9. 9Lloyd C. Douglas114
  10. 10A. J. Cronin108

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.