Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Walter D. Edmonds
Charting Aug 10, 1936 → Mar 2, 1947 · 56 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
19361947Longest reign 2 weeks (Feb–Mar 1937) · First crown Feb 1937
- Peak Power
- 12.59%
- week of Mar 1, 1937
- Career Power
- 589
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 4
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 493
- August 1936 – July 1937
- Peak Five Years
- 583
- June 1935 – June 1940
- Top-five weeks
- 44
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 56
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Feb 22, 1937
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1940
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 books · 589 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drums Along the Mohawk | #1 | 46 | 513.6 | ||
| Chad Hanna | #3 | 8 | 69.9 | ||
| In the Hands of the Senecas | #11 | 2 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1936 in books →Walter D. Edmonds's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1936 to July 1937. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Margaret Mitchell654
- 2Walter D. Edmonds493
- 3Virginia Woolf191
- 4Somerset Maugham182
- 5Millen Brand146
- 6Lloyd C. Douglas142
- 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
- 8Hervey Allen133
- 9Aldous Huxley128
- 10John P. Marquand125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.