Agent-c/o Author Mail, Tor Books, 175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010. Education: University of Tulsa, B.S., 1970.ĪDDRESSES: Home-Tulsa, OK. Inhofe (in mail order business), September, 1970 children: Nicholas David. E.PERSONAL: Born 1950, in Tulsa, OK married David E. Her contribution to the American Literature for young adults was acclaimed in 1988 when she was given the ‘Margaret Edwards Young Adult Author Achievement Award’ for her work by the American Library Association. Presently she is still writing and lives with her husband David Inhofe in Tulsa. Not much is known about Hinton’s personal life as she did not like making it public however her love for reading and writing was revealed by herself. Hinton also wrote some adult books which include ‘Hawkes Harbor’ (2004) and ‘Some of Tim’s Stories’ (2006). Her novels ‘Tex’ and ‘That was Then, This is Now’ also made into films were a hit. The films were directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
‘The outsiders’ was released in March 1983 and ‘Rumble Fish’ in October 1983. Many of her books were adapted into films. ‘Taming the Star Runner’ came out in 1988. In her book ‘Tex’ (1979) a story of two brothers living in a crazy family trying to survive through all of it, grabbed the avid attention of the readers. In her novel ‘Rumble Fish’ (1975) Hinton also tells the story of gang wars and growing up in all this was a man who loses everything significant to him due to efforts of becoming something he is not. This was a story of two brothers and the differences in their lives and how these move them apart. She married him in 1970 and had a baby boy in August 1983 named Nicholas David Inhofe.Īfter coming out of writer’s block Hinton wrote her second novel ‘That was Then, This was now’ which was published in 1971. Using the profits of her sales she joined the University of Tulsa where she got her degree and also met her life partner David Inhofe. It received some critique in the beginning for showing a rebellious youth but then it became one of the most renowned novels of the time. This novel was called ‘The Outsiders’ and was published in 1967. The story is narrated by her character of ‘Pony boy’. The gangs belonged to two different classes of the society the lower middle class ‘greasers’ and the upper class ‘Socs’.
So taking inspiration from real life and events that had happened in her life she created a story of two gangs and their rivalry. She wanted something more realistic a story about what it is really like in the teenage. The typical ‘girl meets boy’ stories were very emblematic and monotonous for her. As she grew up in her teens she realized that nothing interested her as much as she wanted.
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