Ardis Cameron is a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. She helped bring both Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place back into print and wrote the introduction to each. She is the author of Radicals of the Worst Sort: The Laboring Women of Lawrence, Massachusetts and the contributing editor of Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People.
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Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its autho... SEE MORE