'Peyton Place,' New Hampshire, and the failure of book bans
Efforts to stop the 1956 novel backfired spectacularly. But Grace Metalious, the book’s New Hampshire author, paid a terrible price.
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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.
Grace Metalious endured criticism and backlash after publishing her book Peyton Place, and again when it was made into a hit TV show.