Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ruth McKenney
Charting Aug 15, 1938 → Aug 15, 1938 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.91%
- week of Aug 15, 1938
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- August 1937 – August 1938
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- August 1933 – August 1938
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Aug 15, 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 · 8 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Sister Eileen | #5 | 1 | 8.3 |
At their peak
1937 in books →Ruth McKenney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1937 to August 1938. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1A. J. Cronin611
- 2Kenneth Roberts528
- 3Louis Bromfield263
- 4Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings248
- 5Phyllis Bottome174
- 6Vaughan Wilkins167
- 7Howard Spring158
- 8Hervey Allen118
- 9Ann Bridge108
- 10Sinclair Lewis85
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.