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Vincent Sheean

Charting Jun 22, 1936Aug 29, 1938 · 16 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    19361938

    First crown Jul 1936

Peak Power
6.56%
week of Aug 10, 1936
Career Power
146
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
104
September 1935 – September 1936
Peak Five Years
146
September 1933 – August 1938
Top-five weeks
10
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Jul 6, 1936
Comebacks
1
Aug 1938

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 · 146 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
Sanfelice#111103.8
A Day of Battle#4542.0

At their peak

1935 in books

Vincent Sheean's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1935 to September 1936. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Sinclair Lewis337
  2. 2George Santayana330
  3. 3Robert Briffault249
  4. 4Charles Morgan179
  5. 5Ellen Glasgow158
  6. 6Margaret Mitchell154
  7. 7Mary Roberts Rinehart151
  8. 8Rebecca West112
  9. 9Aldous Huxley107
  10. 10Vincent Sheean104

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.