From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!tesla!jeff
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: Correction on The Outsiders
Article-I.D.: tesla.40
Posted: Mon Apr  4 12:36:26 1983
Received: Tue Apr  5 06:49:54 1983
References: cornell.4217

The author is indeed female, but was something of a tomboy in her youth
(she`s now in her thirties) and still works with teen-agers.  The New
York Times has had a couple of interviews with S.E. Hinton recently,
in which this information is given.
jeff