"I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an..." - S. E. Hinton

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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

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