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"I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma [in 1950], where I have lived most of my life. There is nothing to do there, but it is a pleasant place to live if you don't want to do anything....
"I started reading about the same time everyone else did, and began to write a short time later. The major influence on my writing has been my reading. I read everything, including Comet cans and coffee labels. Reading taught me sentence structure, paragraphing, how to build a chapter. Strangely enough, it never taught me spelling.
"I've always written about things that interest me, so my first years of writing (grade three through grade ten) I wrote about cowboys and horses. I wanted to be a cowboy and have a horse. I was strange for my era, but feel quite comfortable in this one, when everyone wants to be a cowboy and I have a horse."1
In 1967, while attending Tulsa' Will Rogers High School, Hinton revolutionized the genre of the young adult novel with the publication of The Outsiders, the story of a confrontation between a group of "greasers" and their more affluent high school peers, the "socs." Hinton began the first draft of her novel at the age of fifteen, and was published when she was seventeen.
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