Why 'The Outsiders' Still Matters 50 Years Later

When S.E. Hinton published The Outsiders in 1967, a novel she began writing at age 15 and sold at 17, the idea of a teenager writing fiction for her peers was a novelty. Most of the literature handed down for high school students to read had, in Hinton's estimation, nothing to do with the lived experiences of teenagers in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. "The authors of books for

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