![]() “Honestly I did not get much attention and success, it built gradually.” ![]() Many considered the book and the author immediate sensations, but Hinton takes a more modest approach. Though she wrote The Outsiders as a high school student, it didn’t sell until she was a freshman at the University of Tulsa. ![]() I recently re-read it and was very proud of my young self. I loved all the horse books, but the book I read over and over again was Duff, The Story of a Bear (Longmans, 1950). “My first memories of reading? I loved it!! I was one of those little girl horse nuts and distinctly remember checking Peanuts the Pony (D.C. I also made a D in creative writing the year (junior in high school) I wrote The Outsiders.” I had some great English teachers who encouraged me through grade school, middle school, high school. I had access to the local library, but my family thought my writing was some weird phase I would outgrow. “I began writing in grade school, eager to make my own stories happen the way I wanted to. But she had been writing for years prior. Hinton was just a 16-year-old student at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when she wrote The Outsiders. Since first being published in 1967 by Viking Press, The Outsiders has sold more than 14 million copies making it the bestselling young adult novel. She wrote about the passion and the pain involved in finding one’s place, making one’s mark, and staying true to one’s self. ![]() Hinton wrote about the life she saw and lived as a teenager. Fifty years ago, The Outsiders was first introduced to readers. ![]()
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