Grace Metalious is best known as the author of the infamous Peyton Place, a book that caused a social upheaval even before it was published in 1956. She was born Marie Grace DeRepentigny in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1924. Metalious's father...

Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924 – February 25, 1964) was an American author, best known for the controversial novel Peyton Place. She was born into poverty and a broken home as Marie Grace de Repentigny in the mill town of Manchester, New...

Chosen by Nora Sayre, whose books include Previous Convictions: A Journey Through the 1950s. "Your nipples are as hard as diamonds": Today that remark could suggest implants gone wrong, but in 1956 it was meant as a compliment. And although copulation thrived in...

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. Pp. 409. $18.00 Peyton Place, published in 1956, was the most commercially successful American novel of the 19508. The rather lurid story about the nasty things going on behind the clean fronts of a small town...

When moviemakers wanted to film "Peyton Place" in this small seaside town, the best-selling novel the movie was to be based on was so scandalous the local library didn't even keep it on its shelves.The book had sparked outrage with its titillating look behind closed...