Talk:S. E. Hinton

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Material from Little-known facts about S. E. Hinton novels:

The Outsiders

• Ponyboy's full name is Ponyboy Michael Curtis
• Sodapop's full name is Sodapop Patrick Curtis
• Darry's full name is Darrel Shayne Curtis, Jr.
• The reason Darry has such a 'boring' name compared to his two brothers is because he is named after his father.
• Two-Bit's real name is Keith Matthews
• Sandy, Sodapop's girlfriend, who is only briefly mentioned in the book, leaves Soda to go live in Florida with her Grandmother because she is pregnant with Soda or another guy's baby. If you read every part of the book that mentions Sandy you should be able to figure this out.
• Cherry's real name is Sherri Valance
• Cherry and Marcia and some nurses are the only girls present in the entire book, others are mentioned but not seen.
• Marcia is prononunced like Marsha

all the above text contributed from IP 205.188.117.12, 14:31, 16 May 2004. Andrewa 05:34, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] what is S.E. Hinton doing today

[edit] age?

It's impossible that somebody born in 1948 was 16 in 1967. --OliverTraldi 04:18, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

She was sixteen when she wrote it, she was older by the time it was published ( it can take years before a novel finishes editing, etc.) F-451 18:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

She was 16 when she wrote the majority of it during her sophomore/junior year (1964/1965), it was published in 1967, her first year of college. She was born in 1948.