Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially "The Outsiders", which she wrote during high school.
When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.
