One of its ramshackle filming locations, the Curtis brothers’ home, opened to the public in 2019 as the Outsiders House Museum. The heartfelt movie adaptation has staying power, too. It’s still an English class staple, taught (and occasionally banned) in middle and high schools across the country. But none of the others matches the ongoing cultural phenomenon that is The Outsiders. Hinton has nine books to her name, from children’s picture books to a horror novel to a collection of intertwined short stories with adult characters to the coming-of-age works that built her literary career. The 1967 book is a foundational text in the young adult fiction canon, and the 1983 movie version (featuring Macchio as 16-year-old Johnny Cade) plays an outsized role in bringing tourists to Hinton’s lifelong home of Tulsa.
Over its 56-year lifespan, The Outsiders has sold more than 15 million copies, been published in more than 30 languages and never gone out of print. While Rumble Fish is certainly a fine book (and a terrific artsy film), it isn’t ranked 32nd in PBS’s “ The Great American Read” poll of the top 100 English-language novels. … Oh god, for once, I’d like to discuss Rumble Fish.” This may be the last interview on The Outsiders I’ll ever give. The thought of getting into it one more time is almost paralyzing. “I am very tired of talking about ,” says Hinton, now 74. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Dillon also appeared in The Outsiders as Dallas "Dally" Winston.
The story would come to define her life-even though these days she would rather discuss just about anything else. More than half a century ago, Susie Hinton (soon to be known by her gender-neutral pen name) was a student at Will Rogers, where she received a D in creative writing because class assignments were nowhere near as important to her as working out the plot and characters of The Outsiders.
“It’s been a long time, so I was kind of looking around … and a woman came up and asked me, ‘Is this your first time inside the school?’ I said, ‘No, not really.’” “It was funny when I first came into the building,” she said near the end of a phone conversation last Halloween, a week and a half after her appearance with Macchio. Prior to the event, Hinton was quietly going about her business, wandering the school’s halls absent-mindedly. Hinton, the writer whose teenage words would forever be emblematic of young adult literature and whose most famous creation, The Outsiders, helped launch Macchio’s career some 40 years earlier. Hosted by Magic City Books, the live conversation in the Art Deco auditorium at Will Rogers High School featured another pop culture icon: S.E. Ralph Macchio (most recently of “ Cobra Kai” fame) was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to promote his memoir, Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me. In late October 2022, a big-time streaming star returned to the city where it all began for him.
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