Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bobblehead of Grace Metalious and a copy of “Peyton Place” A bobblehead of author Grace Metalious and a copy of “Peyton Place” ...

Fifty years ago, Grace Metalious touched a cultural nerve. She published "Peyton Place," about the scandals, betrayals and lusts that lurk beneath the placid surface of a New England small town.

Author Grace Metalious caused quite a stir with her novel "Peyton Place". Produced in 1994, this documentary looks at the rise and fall of New Hampshire acclaimed author Grace Metalious, who caused ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The quiet, tree-lined town of Gilmanton, N.H. enjoyed a fleeting notoriety when Townswoman Grace Metalious renamed it Peyton Place. Behind Gilmanton’s doors, Novelist Metalious found fictional ...

PEYTON PLACE (372 pp.)—Grace Metalious—Julian Messner ($3.95). A month before this book’s publication, Boston papers broke into a rash of headlines: SPICY BOOK HAS NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN AGOG. The town: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In “Peyton Place,” Metalious wrote of societal hypocrisy, lifting the lid off a “small New England town” as the original book ...

NEW YORK -- Sandra Bullock has agreed to star in a film about "Peyton Place" author Grace Metalious, whose million-selling novel scandalized the nation 50 years ago and eventually ruined the author's ...