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Robert W. Chambers

Charting Mar 19, 1934Mar 26, 1934 · 2 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.23%
week of Mar 26, 1934
Career Power
12
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
12
April 1933 – March 1934
Peak Five Years
12
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
2
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Mar 26, 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

1 book · 12 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
Secret Service Operator 13#7211.8

At their peak

1933 in books

Robert W. Chambers's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1933 to March 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Hervey Allen542
  2. 2Sinclair Lewis161
  3. 3Gladys Hasty Carroll129
  4. 4Hans Fallada115
  5. 5Mary Roberts Rinehart104
  6. 6John Galsworthy100
  7. 7Margaret Ayer Barnes97
  8. 8Dashiell Hammett84
  9. 9James Joyce72
  10. 10Thorne Smith64

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.