However, she says that she does not read young adult books published today because she considers herself out of touch with trending topics and contemporary concerns. In a 2007 interview Hinton describes her enduring attraction to writing about young adults, saying, “t's an interesting time of life when your ideals get slammed up against reality and you must compromise” (Sozio, Lauren. She admired the authenticity of Coppola’s adaptation, especially because the stars, Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke, were of a similar age to the protagonists. Hinton collaborated with the director to co-write the screenplay. It received the 1975 ALA Best Books for Young Adults award, and in 1983 Francis Ford Coppola directed a film adaptation of the story. Rumble Fish (1975), which took up the street gang theme that made The Outsiders so popular, was Hinton’s third novel for young adults. Hinton’s work caught the national imagination, and in 1988, the American Library Association awarded her the Margaret Edwards Award for her lifetime contribution to writing for teens. She wanted to write something in the style of films like Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which she thought portrayed the teen experience better than the sentimentalized literature of the time. Hinton felt that there was a gap in the literary market for portraying real teen experiences. The work “grew out of her dissatisfaction with the way teen-age life was being portrayed in the books she read” (Michaud, Jon. It was published in 1967 and earned Hinton her reputation as a pioneer of the young adult genre. She wrote her first novel, The Outsiders, while still in high school. Susan Eloise Hinton was born in 1948 and lives in Oklahoma, where most of her novels are set.
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