A couple of years ago I went to a reading by S.E. Hinton , the woman who , as a teenager , published The Outsiders . I keep returning to one thing she said that night : " I could n't have written The Outsiders as an adult , " said Hinton . " I had to be sixteen to get that upset about a bad haircut . " Another reading I went to that year was by Olivia Birdsall , who had just published her first book , Notes on a Near - Life Experience .

Select from the following.
a). They like fiction .
b). None of the above choices .
c). They like non - fiction .
d). They like biographies .
Answer the following question: What type of literary works does the narrator like ?
a).