THE O

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BY

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S.E. HINTON• Born and raised in Tulsa,

Oklahoma• She began writing The

Outsiders when she was 15

• The Outsiders was published when she was 17

• She wrote The Outsiders because she was tired of the social struggles she witnessed at her high school and she wanted to bring those struggles to people’s attention

• Her name is Susan Eloise Hinton, but her publisher thought her book would sell better if people thought it was written by a male, so they called her S.E. Hinton

THE

SETTI

NG – 1960’S

OKLAHOMA

The

Culture

of t

he 60’s

MUSIC OF THE 1960’S

PAUL NEWMAN

CARS OF THE 1960’S

60’S STYLE

G I R L S G U Y S

SOCIAL LIFEC I V I L R I G H T S A N D

W A RE N T E R T A I N M E N T