Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Stephen Vincent Benet
Charting May 7, 1934 → Jun 4, 1934 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.63%
- week of Jun 4, 1934
- Career Power
- 19
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 19
- June 1933 – June 1934
- Peak Five Years
- 19
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of May 14, 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
1 book · 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Shore's Daughter | #6 | 3 | 19.1 |
At their peak
1933 in books →Stephen Vincent Benet's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1933 to June 1934. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Hervey Allen667
- 2Sinclair Lewis148
- 3Hans Fallada115
- 4John Galsworthy100
- 5Margaret Ayer Barnes97
- 6Lion Feuchtwanger91
- 7Mary Roberts Rinehart91
- 8Dashiell Hammett84
- 9James Joyce81
- 10Louis Bromfield67
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1930s.