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This Is Now (November 1985), directed by Christopher Cain. Also adapted to film were Tex (July 1982), directed by Tim Hunter, and That Was Then. Adaptationsįilm adaptations of The Outsiders (March 1983) and Rumble Fish (October 1983) were both directed by Francis Ford Coppola Hinton co-wrote the script for Rumble Fish with Coppola. She resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her husband David Inhofe, a software engineer, after meeting him in her freshman biology class at college. Hinton also stated in an interview with that she enjoys writing fan fiction.

Scott Fitzgerald ), taking classes at the local university, and horseback riding. However, she has revealed that she enjoys reading ( Jane Austen, Mary Renault, and F.

In interviews, Hinton has stated that she is a private person and an introvert who no longer does public appearances. After the success of The Outsiders, Hinton chose to continue writing and publishing using her initials because she did not want to lose what she had made famous and to allow her to keep her private and public lives separate. Hinton's publisher suggested she use her initials instead of her feminine given names so that the very first male book reviewers would not dismiss the novel because its author was female. Since then, the book has sold more than 14 million copies and still sells more than 500,000 a year. She wrote the novel when she was 16 and it was published in 1967. The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School, the Greasers and the Socs, and her desire to empathize with the Greasers by writing from their point of view. While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s.