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Grace Metalious endured a significant amount of criticism and backlash after publishing her book Peyton Place, and then again when it was made into a hit TV show. It earned high appraisal from ...

At the time it came out, it was the largest selling novel of all time. It was Payton Place. I’ll tell you the story.>> See the video archive of Fritz's stories At the time it came out, it was the ...

Grace Metalious, the author to one of the most notorious and best-selling novels in American history was born Marie Grace de Repentigny on September 8, 1924 in Manchester, NH. Her family was poor, a ...

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 ...

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: ...

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You’d have to be an astute obituary reader and local historian to catch the significance of the obit that ran in this newspaper on Feb. 1. On the bottom of page five, a 119-word article detailed the ...

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 ...