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.
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S.E. Hinton authored five young adult novels in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. The Outsiders, published by Viking in 1967, was her first and most popular novel. 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. Hinton used her initials when publishing the book so that male readers would not assume the novel was written primarily for females.
Hinton attended 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.
Her best known books are The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. Rumble Fish was originally published in 1968 as a short story in the University of Tulsa literary journal Nimrod, but was expanded and published as a Book in 1975. She also wrote That Was Then, This Is Now (1971); Tex (1979); and Taming The Star Runner (1988). Common themes within her novels are juvenile delinquency, high school subcultures, teenage rebellion and other issues that remain important to young adults today. All of the books are set in Tulsa and the surrounding area and have characters or places in common (see Continuity within S.E. Hinton Novels).
Film adaptations (directed by Francis Ford Coppola) of The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1984) established the careers of many film stars such as Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, and Mickey Rourke. Also adapted to film were Tex (1982), directed by Tim Hunter, and That Was Then, This Is Now (1985), directed by Christopher Cain.
[edit] Books
[edit] For adults
[edit] For young adults
- The Outsiders, 1967
- That Was Then, This Is Now, 1971
- Rumble Fish, 1975
- Tex, 1979
- Taming The Star Runner, 1988
[edit] For Children
- Big David, Little David, 1995
- The Puppy Sister, 1995
