![]() ![]() The Outsiders-which still sells half a million copies every year-forever changed the way books are written for young readers. Because she wasn’t yet 21, her mother had to sign too. Her contract from Viking Press actually arrived the day she graduated from Tulsa’s Will Rogers High School. Hinton was an Oklahoma high school student when she completed the manuscript she was then calling A Different Sunset. We are not, by the way, talking about some urbane 19-year-old groomed for the elite cultural circles of Manhattan. The aura surrounding the classic tale of warring adolescent cliques from opposite sides of the tracks is enhanced by the fact that the author was herself a teenager. This was 1967, so youth culture was not exactly new, but something about the plain, emotional voice of The Outsiders did away with the grownups’ interference and spoke directly to teen readers in a new way. book awards, goodreads, best books of 2106įifty years ago this spring, the best selling young adult novel of all time was published to adulation and outrage.Enter your email address to receive new posts by email. ![]()
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