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Virginia Woolf portraitVirginia Woolf

Charting Apr 19, 1937Aug 23, 1937 · 19 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    19371937

    Longest reign 2 weeks (May 1937) · First crown May 1937

Peak Power
10.46%
week of Jul 26, 1937
Career Power
226
share-weeks
Crowns
4
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
226
August 1936 – August 1937
Peak Five Years
226
September 1932 – August 1937
Top-five weeks
18
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of May 3, 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 · 226 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 Years#119225.9

At their peak

1936 in books

Virginia Woolf's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1936 to August 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Margaret Mitchell614
  2. 2Walter D. Edmonds468
  3. 3Virginia Woolf226
  4. 4Somerset Maugham190
  5. 5Millen Brand183
  6. 6Lloyd C. Douglas142
  7. 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
  8. 8Hervey Allen133
  9. 9John P. Marquand125
  10. 10John Steinbeck114

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1930s.