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I desperately wanted something to read that dealt realistically with teen-age life. At the time, I was mad about the social situation in my high school.

To deal with problems I had to face, and write my way to some sort of understanding and coping. Looking back, I realize how important it was to me to have another life at that time. Actually I began it when I was fifteen, as a short story about a boy who was beaten up on his way home from the movies.īut I didn’t just write The Outsiders, I lived it.

I wrote The Outsiders when I was sixteen years old. It is very difficult for me to write about myself, and especially The Outsiders, which was written at a horrendous time in my life, was published by a series of mind-boggling synchronicities, and has gone further than any author dared dream.