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GILMANTON — The publication of "Peyton Pace" 50 years ago rocked the world with its blunt portrayal of less-than-perfect lives at a time when people were expected to conform to the whitewashed, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...