Oct 13, 2008
When Hinton published The Outsiders in 1967, she used her initials so that readers would think she was a man. It was assumed by publishers, in that pre-young adult era, that readers would not believe that a woman could write realistically about the urban street world that Hinton's first novel depicts. It is a sign of how far the genre has evolved since 1967 that The Outsiders seems so tame today.
The novel is set in a small southwestern city (similar to Tulsa), but in some ways it could be any city in the United States, for the novel is vague and dreamy in form....
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