Author S.E. Hinton created a world that would transform the way teens saw themselves with characters like Sodapop, Ponyboy, and Dally becoming icons of young adult fiction and visual media in the ...

emotional over Johnny Cade and Dally’s fate. Then they see Ponyboy is now 57, and they really start crying.” Howell has continued a close friendship with S.E. Hinton, who rarely gives interviews.