CNN.com - 'Outsiders' author finds sex and vampires - Sep 28, 2004

CNN.com - 'Outsiders' author finds sex and vampires - Sep 28, 2004: "Hinton started the book at age 15 in reaction to the social rivalries on the streets of Tulsa, where she grew up, and at Will Rogers High School. No one else was writing about the 'socs' and the 'greasers,' the haves and the have-nots, the injustice that stunned her.
'She really was the first author who came along and wrote about something other than sweet little middle-class children,' says Pamela Spencer Holley, president-elect of the Young Adult Library Service Association, a branch of the American Library Association. 'Everything else that followed has been because of her.'"