The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.
The Outsiders is an American young adult (YA) novel by S.E. Hinton about rival teen gangs in Oklahoma that was published in 1967 and was one of the first modern YA novels.
This page contains details about the book The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton published in 1967. This book is the 876th greatest book of all time as determined by thegreatestbooks.org.
The Outsiders was published in 1967, when the author was just seventeen. Susan Eloise shortened her name to S. E. Hinton so that boys would not know the author was female.
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.
Editions for The Outsiders: 0670532576 (Mass Market Paperback published in 1997), 014240733X (Paperback published in 2021), 1101642610 (Kindle Edition pu...
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age story about two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs (short form of Socials), who are divided by their socioeconomic status. The story was written as a novel by S. E. Hinton and published in 1967.
Her first novel, The Outsiders, was published in 1967 and changed publishing for young adults by portraying a grittier, more realistic view of the lives of teenagers.
On April 24th, 1967, The Outsiders was published as a cheap, drugstore paperback, in a time before the YA fiction market even existed. Author S.E. Hinton started writing her famous book at just fifteen—and, amazingly enough, this wasn’t even the first book she wrote!