Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924-1964) (full name: Grace de Repentigny Metalious) was the author of the novel Peyton Place (1956), once controversial for its sexual frankness.
Other novels included Return to Peyton Place (1959), The Tight White Collar (1961) and ''No Adam in Eden" (1963).
With regard to her success, she said "If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste;" and as to the frankness of her work, "Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend, and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass."
