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Rose Wilder Lane portraitRose Wilder Lane

Charting May 9, 1938Jun 13, 1938 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.88%
week of Jun 13, 1938
Career Power
23
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
23
June 1937 – June 1938
Peak Five Years
23
June 1933 – June 1938
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of May 23, 1938
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 · 23 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
Free Land#5322.9

At their peak

1937 in books

Rose Wilder Lane's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1937 to June 1938. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Kenneth Roberts576
  2. 2A. J. Cronin528
  3. 3Louis Bromfield263
  4. 4Vaughan Wilkins199
  5. 5Michael Foster136
  6. 6Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings129
  7. 7Hervey Allen118
  8. 8Millen Brand113
  9. 9Virginia Woolf109
  10. 10Ann Bridge108

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.