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Thomas Wolfe portraitThomas Wolfe

Charting Mar 18, 1935 → Nov 10, 1941 · 46 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    9 crowns

    19351941

    Longest reign 3 weeks (Apr 1935) · First crown Mar 1935

Peak Power
9.60%
week of May 20, 1935
Career Power
499
share-weeks
Crowns
9
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
267
September 1934 – September 1935
Peak Five Years
394
September 1934 – September 1939
Top-five weeks
37
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
46
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.97%
week of Mar 18, 1935
Comebacks
1
Jul 1939

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

4 books · 499 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
Of Time and the River#125267.4
The Web and the Rock#211126.8
You Can't Go Home Again#1890.5
The Hills Beyond#6214.5

At their peak

1934 in books →

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

  1. 1James Hilton482
  2. 2Lloyd C. Douglas295
  3. 3Stark Young271
  4. 4Thomas Wolfe267
  5. 5Franz Werfel244
  6. 6Humphrey Cobb163
  7. 7Edna Ferber156
  8. 8Thornton Wilder148
  9. 9Mazo de la Roche143
  10. 10Rachel Field134

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.