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Vicki Baum

Charting Mar 14, 1932Aug 3, 1958 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.52%
week of Sep 4, 1939
Career Power
43
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
15
September 1938 – September 1939
Peak Five Years
30
March 1937 – March 1942
Top-five weeks
3
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Mar 14, 1932
Comebacks
1
Sep 1939, after 7 quiet years

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

5 books · 43 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
Shanghai '37#5214.7
And Life Goes On#3111.0
Tale of Bali#518.3
Marion Alive#617.3
Theme for Ballet#1512.1

At their peak

1938 in books

Vicki Baum's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1938 to September 1939. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Rachel Field484
  2. 2Daphne Du Maurier381
  3. 3John Steinbeck287
  4. 4Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings210
  5. 5John P. Marquand187
  6. 6Howard Spring184
  7. 7F. Van Wyck Mason138
  8. 8Elizabeth Page136
  9. 9Thomas Wolfe118
  10. 10Lloyd C. Douglas114

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

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