What is the setting of the book 'The Outsiders'?

We know The Outsiders is set in 1965 because S.E. Hinton says so in the FAQ page of her website (Source), but not because there's any indication in the novel (though the slang is insanely outdated). read more

setting (time) · Mid-1960s. setting (place) · Tulsa, Oklahoma. protagonist · Ponyboy. major conflict · Against the background of the clash between the poor greasers and the rich Socs, the greaser Ponyboy struggles to mature. rising action · Johnny kills a Soc; Johnny and Ponyboy flee; tension mounts between the greasers and Socs. read more

The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. read more

The book was published in early 1967, and the fictional events in the book took place just before that, as the author herself wrote the book while in high-school, watching the kind of thing that happen in The Outsiders take place all around her. read more

We know The Outsiders is set in 1965 because S.E. Hinton says so in the FAQ page of her website , but not because there's any indication in the novel (though the slang is insanely outdated). The setting is based on Hinton's hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she was living when she wrote the story as a high school student . read more