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Trygve Gulbranssen

Charting May 31, 1937Jun 28, 1937 · 3 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.71%
week of Jun 28, 1937
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
19
July 1936 – June 1937
Peak Five Years
19
July 1932 – June 1937
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
3
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Jun 28, 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 · 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Wind from the Mountains#5319.4

At their peak

1936 in books

Trygve Gulbranssen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1936 to June 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Margaret Mitchell677
  2. 2Walter D. Edmonds488
  3. 3Somerset Maugham169
  4. 4Aldous Huxley149
  5. 5Lloyd C. Douglas142
  6. 6Virginia Woolf142
  7. 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
  8. 8Hervey Allen133
  9. 9John P. Marquand125
  10. 10John Steinbeck107

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.