The Outsiders

Name: The Outsiders
Author: Susan Hinton

by Susan Hinton

Rivalry between working-class and wealthy teenage gangs in 1960s Oklahoma

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Susan Hinton

S.E. Hinton is an American author who wrote The Outsiders when she was sixteen, making her the first major YA author to write from inside teen experience rather than looking down at it. Her work defined gritty realism in YA.

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