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The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).
While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name [a] as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began writing it in 1965. [ 7 ] The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School , [ 8 ] the Greasers and the Socs , [ 3 ] and her desire to empathize ...
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The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, published in 1967, made its Broadway debut in 2024. ‘The Great Gatsby’ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1925 but became not one, but two ...
The book (like Rumble Fish and That Was Then, This Is Now) takes place in the same universe as Hinton's first book The Outsiders, but in a rural town called Garyville, Oklahoma, a fictional suburb of Tulsa. Tex and his older brother Mason live by themselves while their father tours the rodeo circuit. Tex is blissfully happy with his life.
The Outsiders is a 2023 musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance from the folk rock band Jamestown Revival alongside Justin Levine and a book by Adam Rapp and Levine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is based on The Outsiders , first published in 1967 and written by S. E. Hinton , and on its 1983 film adaptation written by Kathleen Rowell ...
The Outsiders was Hinton's first published book in 1967; Hinton started the book at the age of fifteen. [1] Hinton based the characters, the Greasers and the Socs, off of teenage gangs and alienated youth in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960s. The Outsiders has sold over fourteen
The book, like Rumble Fish, takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton's hometown and the setting of her first book, The Outsiders.However, unlike Rumble Fish, Ponyboy Curtis, the main character in The Outsiders, appears in That Was Then, This Is Now and even takes part in the events surrounding the dance.