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 ...

Yes, of course Peyton Place was a dirty book — one reason why we loved it — but that was only the beginning. If corruption means teaching people all about the wicked things that they’re not supposed ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Hope Lange, who starred opposite Hollywood's top actors over a decades-long career and earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in the 1957 film Peyton Place, has ...

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 ...