Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1956, Grace Metalious shook up the literary world with Peyton Place, her bold novel about women's lives in a fictional New ...

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 ...

Next month marks the 50th anniversary of publication of Grace Metalious’s Peyton Place, one of the most notorious novels of its time. The book exposed the petty, sordid, and urgently erotic hidden ...

Decades before Dynasty and Melrose Place, Peyton Place began the grand tradition of the prime time soap opera. The series, which aired 514 episodes from 1964 to 1969, turned Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal ...