S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders while attending high school in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The novel was published in 1967, when she was 18 years old. Its storyline was inspired by her personal experience with the fragmented social groups of her hometown, and a real-life incident in which a greaser friend of hers was physically attacked by a group of wealthier students became the book’s opening scene.
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