The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. Hinton was 18 when the book was published. Hinton started writing the novel when she was 15 and wrote the bulk of it when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press. The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S.E. Hinton and was released on March 25, 1983, in the United States. The film is an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. The Outsiders is a 1983 American epic coming-of-age crime drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. In a small Oklahoma town in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze.
The Outsiders: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
