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S. E. Hinton
According to Wikipedia,
The Outsiders
is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first
published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when
she started writing the novel, but
did most of the work when she was sixteen and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18
when the book was published.
The
book follows two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs who
are divided by their
socioeconomic status.
The
book takes place in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, in 1965, but it is never stated in the book.