Legacy
After her death, Peyton Place resurfaced as the setting for eight novels by Don Tracy (1905–1976), writing as Roger Fuller, including Evils of Peyton Place (1969) and Temptations of Peyton Place (1970), but this series had only routine sales.
In 2005, novelist Barbara Delinsky used Grace Metalious and Peyton Place as a springboard for Looking for Peyton Place, her novel about the impact of Metalious' book on a small New Hampshire town, Middle River, where residents believe Peyton Place is about people in their community.
In 2006, it was announced that Sandra Bullock was slated to star in and co-produce a biopic of Metalious' life, but this film never went into production.
In 2007, the city of Manchester, the Manchester Historic Association and the University of New Hampshire at Manchester honored Metalious with an in-depth examination of her life and most famous book. The celebration, which included lectures, readings of her work and screenings of the 1957 film, marked the area's first public acknowledgment of its native daughter.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)