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Sally Salminen portraitSally Salminen

Charting Oct 4, 1937Dec 27, 1937 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.65%
week of Nov 1, 1937
Career Power
38
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
38
January 1937 – December 1937
Peak Five Years
38
January 1933 – December 1937
Top-five weeks
2
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
9.58%
week of Oct 4, 1937
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 · 38 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.

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At their peak

1937 in books

Sally Salminen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1937 to December 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Margaret Mitchell382
  2. 2Kenneth Roberts344
  3. 3Walter D. Edmonds258
  4. 4Virginia Woolf226
  5. 5A. J. Cronin205
  6. 6Somerset Maugham196
  7. 7Millen Brand189
  8. 8Vaughan Wilkins187
  9. 9Michael Foster136
  10. 10John P. Marquand125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.