The novel "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton is thought to have been settled in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, though this is never explicitly stated in the book. We can infer this because the story was written when the author, born in 1948, was a junior in high school, living in Oklahoma. Besides, the story is narrated in first person perspective, which may lead us to think that it was the author herself who was experiencing the events taking place, and later, she decided to narrate them. The author was only eighteen when the novel was published.