3 facts about The Outsiders

The author S. E. Hinton (right), whose full name is Susan Eloise Hinton, is from Tulsa, Oklahoma and started writing The Outsiders at age 15. It has sold more than 15 million copies. Big-screen adaptation A film version of the book came out in 1983. The idea to turn it into a movie came from a librarian and 104 students from a California middle school, who sent a petition to director Francis Ford Coppola in 1980. Museum In 2016, hip-hop artist and Outsiders fan Danny Boy O’Connor bought a house in Tulsa that was used as the Curtis brothers’ home in the film. It has been transformed into a museum filled with photos and artifacts related to the production.…

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