![]() ![]() The editor suggested “The Greasers,” then “The Leather Jackets.” Next, there was consensus to go with “The Switch-blade Boys.” Then someone at Viking came up with “The Outsiders,” and the rest is lit history. 2: Varner thought “A Different Sunset” was a misleading title, too sentimental. ![]() In fact, she was a bad speller with poor penmanship - reasons for getting a D grade in Creative Writing in high school.) (Her middle name is Eloise, which she always had trouble spelling. 1: Would the young author consider using her initials, S.E., rather than Susan, so as not to turn away boy readers? Soon after, her editor at Viking, named Velma Varner, proposed two key changes. On the day she graduated from high school in 1966, Susie learned that New York’s Viking Press wanted to publish her book. “I realize now that even the In-Crowd can have problems.” In a cover letter she wrote at 17, when her agent submitted the manuscript for publishing consideration, Susie Hinton pointed to “a lot of social injustice in teen-age life.” She added that she hadn’t changed her thoughts about “my Greasers” - “that you can’t judge a boy by his haircut and clothes” - but her ideas about the “Socs” (pronounced “soashes” as in “social”) had evolved. ![]()
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