![]() ![]() You had to limit your friendships to those that were in your group. I grew up in a greaser neighborhood, and I got put into what you’d call AP classes these days. ![]() The whole class warfare thing was absolutely going on in my high school. ![]() Us: Was it based on the experiences you were going through at the time? There wasn’t anything realistic being written about teen life at that time. I liked writing since I learned how to read, and I had been writing for about eight years when I wrote The Outsiders, so it wasn’t just all of sudden I could sit and write a book. I went back and put in more details, flashbacks, new little asides. The year I was 16, my junior year of high school, was the year I really put the work in. The first draft was about 40 pages long, single-spaced type. Us: What inspired you to write The Outsiders? Hinton: Pretty old! How many writers get to experience this, though? I’m trying to enjoy it. Us Weekly: How does this monumental anniversary make you feel? Hinton attends the 14th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books – Day 2 at UCLA on April 26, 2009, in Los Angeles. ![]()
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