Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1956, Grace Metalious shook up the literary world with Peyton Place, her bold novel about women's lives in a fictional New ...

Efforts to stop the 1956 novel backfired spectacularly. But Grace Metalious, the book’s New Hampshire author, paid a terrible price. It seems so familiar: Books are being banned; basic freedoms are ...

Next month marks the 50th anniversary of publication of Grace Metalious’s Peyton Place, one of the most notorious novels of its time. The book exposed the petty, sordid, and urgently erotic hidden ...

GILMANTON — Sixty years ago Grace Metalious published her blockbuster book “Peyton Place,” and the controversy it stirred up continues to swirl around the Granite State. Metalious wrote the novel ...