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Walter D. Edmonds

Charting Aug 10, 1936Mar 2, 1947 · 56 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    19361947

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Drums Along the Mohawk#146513.6
Chad Hanna#3869.9
In the Hands of the Senecas#1125.5

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:

  1. 1Margaret Mitchell654
  2. 2Walter D. Edmonds493
  3. 3Virginia Woolf191
  4. 4Somerset Maugham182
  5. 5Millen Brand146
  6. 6Lloyd C. Douglas142
  7. 7Alice Tisdale Hobart141
  8. 8Hervey Allen133
  9. 9Aldous Huxley128
  10. 10John P. Marquand125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1930s, the 1940s.