"Outsiders" Author S.E. Hinton on This Day in History

This day in history: Author S.E. Hinton was born on this day in 1950. She is best known as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began writing it in 1965 at age 15 and it was published in 1967. Since then, the book has sold more than 15 million copies and still sells more than 500,000 a year. Imagine writing a book in high school that will take care of you for the rest of your life. The Outsiders is still one of the best selling Young Adult books of all time, though the list now is mostly dominated by the Harry Potter books.

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