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Charting Jun 11, 1934 → Apr 29, 1935 · 15 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    19341935

    First crown Jul 1934

Peak Power
8.36%
week of Aug 20, 1934
Career Power
152
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
152
May 1934 – April 1935
Peak Five Years
152
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
15
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jul 23, 1934
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

2 books · 152 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
I, Claudius#112130.0
Claudius the God#6322.2

At their peak

1934 in books →

Robert Graves's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1934 to April 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Hilton545
  2. 2Stark Young343
  3. 3Caroline Miller279
  4. 4Hervey Allen257
  5. 5Franz Werfel229
  6. 6Robert Graves152
  7. 7Thornton Wilder148
  8. 8Edna Ferber115
  9. 9Irving Stone105
  10. 10Thomas Wolfe99

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.