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Stark Young portraitStark Young

Charting Jul 30, 1934Aug 5, 1935 · 28 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    11 crowns

    19341935

    Longest reign 11 weeks (Aug–Oct 1934) · First crown Aug 1934

Peak Power
12.94%
week of Nov 26, 1934
Career Power
351
share-weeks
Crowns
11
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
343
March 1934 – March 1935
Peak Five Years
351
October 1931 – November 1936
Top-five weeks
24
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
15.31%
week of Oct 29, 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

2 books · 351 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
So Red the Rose#127343.4
Feliciana#617.3

At their peak

1934 in books

Stark Young's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1934 to March 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Hilton461
  2. 2Hervey Allen362
  3. 3Stark Young343
  4. 4Caroline Miller279
  5. 5Franz Werfel189
  6. 6Robert Graves130
  7. 7Thornton Wilder120
  8. 8Irving Stone105
  9. 9Lion Feuchtwanger91
  10. 10Isak Dinesen83

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.