This eventually led to That Was Then, This Is Now.

He made her write two pages a day if she wanted to go anywhere. Her boyfriend (and now, her husband),who had gotten sick of her being depressed all the time, eventually broke this block. This kind of pressure and publicity resulted in a three year long writer's block. Hinton was becoming known as 'The Voice of the Youth' among other titles. Once published, The Outsiders gave her a lot of publicity and fame, and also a lot of pressure. That book, her first novel, was published in 1967 by Viking. She has always enjoyed reading but wasn't satisfied with the literature that was being written for young adults, which influenced her to write novels like The Outsiders. Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her novels changed the way people look at young adult literature. Her books have been taught in some schools, and banned from others. Hinton, was and still is, one of the most popular and best known writers of young adult fiction. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers-until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. A soc (short for 'social') has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. 'How'd you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?'Īccording to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. So I lay still, swearing at them between gasps. I fought to get loose, and almost did for a second then they tightened up on me and slugged me a couple of times. Of course I backed right into one of them. 'No.' I was backing up, away from that knife. 'Need a haircut, greaser?' The medium-sized blond pulled a knife out of his back pocket and flipped the blade open. They walked out slowly, silently, smiling. Hinton - Audio Book CDīrand New ( 5 hours 4 CDs): About The Outsiders

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