Was the book The Outsiders based on a true story?

[Chicken Wings]

please show ur source if it is

 

[ninja panda-chan]

I'm sure similar things have happened, because there were gangs like that, but I don't think it was based on a true story.

 

[Alexis]

no, the author wrote it when she was seventeen

 

[✯ jOeY ✯]

you should probably ask this in like the readingg sectionnn...

 

[adancer1992]

No I don't think it is.