S. E. Hinton
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Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American author of novels for young adults.
Biography
Hinton wrote five young adult novels in the 1960s and '70s. The Outsiders (1967) was her first and most popular novel, which she wrote at the age of sixteen. It is the second-best selling young-adult novel in publishing history with over eight million copies in print.
Hinton first began writing in her junior year at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa. She began The Outsiders because of the two divided groups in her high school, the Greasers and the Socs. After her father died of a cancerous brain tumor, she withdrew and found solace in writing. She also lost her mother during her childhood. In that time period she also witnessed the cold-blooded beating of her friend by two other high school students. Her best known books are The Outsiders (1967) and Rumble Fish, which deal with juvenile delinquency, high school subcultures in the 1960s, and, more importantly, teenage rebellion and issues that remain important to young adults today. She also wrote Tex; That Was Then, This Is Now; and Taming The Star Runner. All of these books take place in Tulsa and have characters or places in common with the other books in the series, see Connections within S.E. Hinton Novels
Hinton went to the University of Tulsa and earned her B.S. degree in 1970. She received the first ever Margaret A. Edwards Award, signifying an author who shows the experiences and emotions of teenagers in their books, and is widely accepted by young people. Hinton also received the Book's Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center. Hinton went by her initials when publishing so that she would not scare away her male audience.
Film adaptations (directed by Francis Ford Coppola) of The Outsiders and Rumble Fish established the careers of many 1980s film stars such as Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, and Mickey Rourke. Tex and That Was Then, This Is Now were also adapted to film along with The Outsiders.
Books
For adults
For young adults
- The Outsiders, 1967
- That Was Then, This Is Now, 1971
- Rumble Fish, 1975
- Tex, 1979
- Taming The Star Runner, 1988
For Children
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