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Sinclair Lewis

Charting Jan 30, 1933 → Apr 29, 1951 · 127 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
29 crowns
19331951
Longest reign 11 weeks (Jan–Apr 1933) · First crown Jan 1933

Peak Power: 10.84%; week of Mar 16, 1936
Career Power: 1,277; share-weeks
Crowns: 29; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 337; May 1935 – May 1936
Peak Five Years: 671; December 1931 – December 1936
Top-five weeks: 93; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 127; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Jan 30, 1933
Comebacks: 5; Nov 1935 · Feb 1938 · May 1943, after 5 quiet years · Nov 1945 · Jul 1947

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

10 books · 1,277 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
It Can't Happen Here	#1November 1935	31	October 1935 – December 1936	350.2	350.2
Kingsblood Royal	#1July 1947	20	June 1947 – October 1947	192.8	192.8
Cass Timberlane	#2October 1945	19	October 1945 – February 1946	175.5	175.5
Ann Vickers	#1January 1933	12	January 1933 – April 1933	172.4	172.4
Work of Art	#1February 1934	13	January 1934 – April 1934	148.2	148.2
The Prodigal Parents	#1February 1938	8	January 1938 – March 1938	85.3	85.3
Gideon Planish	#2May 1943	7	May 1943 – July 1943	74.4	74.4
Bethel Merriday	#3April 1940	5	April 1940 – April 1940	43.5	43.5
The God-Seeker	#10March 1949	9	March 1949 – May 1949	28.5	28.5
World So Wide	#15April 1951	3	April 1951 – April 1951	5.7	5.7

At their peak

1935 in books →

Sinclair Lewis's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1935 to May 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s.