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Grace Metalious


USA flag (1924 - 1964)

race 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 Repentigny in the mill town of Manchester, New Hampshire. Blessed with the gift of imagination, she was driven to write from an early age. After graduating from Manchester High School Central, she married George Metalious in 1943, became a housewife and mother, lived in near squalor and continued to write.

With one child, the couple moved to Durham, New Hampshire, where George attended the University of New Hampshire. In Durham, Grace Metalious began writing seriously, neglecting her house and her three children. When George graduated, he took a position as principal at a school in Gilmanton, New Hampshire.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
Peyton Place
   1. Peyton Place (1956)
   2. Return to Peyton Place (1961)
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Novels
   The Tight White Collar (1961)
   No Adam in Eden (1963)
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