Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924 – February 25, 1964) was an American author known for her novel Peyton Place, one of the best-selling works in publishing ...

Jan 22, 2007 · It is the story of a restless, creative girl who never quite fit in and who found an outlet to express what that was like in 1950s America, only ...

Grace Metalious, the author of one of the most notorious and best-selling novels of the 1950s, was born Marie Grace de Repentigny on September 8, 1924, ...

Grace was an extraordinary woman and a celebrity of global proportions. She is recognized today as America's first feminist author. Her work is taught in ...

Grace Metalious was an American author, best known for the controversial novel Peyton Place. She was born into poverty and a broken home as Marie Grace de ...

As a Franco-American and Roman Catholic from a working-class milieu, Metalious wrote this novel to depict the struggles of ethnic Americans who lived a marginal ...

Grace Metalious, American author of Peyton Place and other works, was a Yankee girl. She was born Mary Grace de Repentigny in Manchester, New Hampshire, on ...

BOSTON, Feb. 25—Grace Metalious, author of “Peyton Place,” the best‐seller about the seamy side of small‐town life, died of a chronic liver disease today at ...

Feb 21, 2022 · A Writer Who Dared to Uncover Small Town Secrets. Grace Metalious (1924-1964) was read by millions in secret but shunned in public by book ...

Unable to cope with fame, she went through three failed marriages (including a remarriage to her first husband), squandered her newfound wealth on a series of ...