S. E. Hinton

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Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American author of novels for young adults.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 For young adults 2.2 For children 2.3 For adults 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Biography

Hinton, who was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, first began writing in her junior year at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa. After her father died of a cancerous brain tumor, she withdrew and found solace in writing. She was inspired to write The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, because of the two divided groups in her high school, the Greasers and the Socs. During that time she also witnessed the beating of her friend by two other high school students. The Outsiders was published by Viking in 1967, and it became the second-best-selling young-adult novel in publishing history, with more than eight million copies in print.^{[citation needed]} 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. In 1988 she was the first recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the ALA;^[1] the award recognizes an author whose work depicts the experiences and emotions of teenagers and is widely accepted by young people. In 1997 Hinton received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book.^[2]

After The Outsiders, her best-known book is Rumble Fish, which was originally published in 1968 as a short story in the University of Tulsa literary journal Nimrod and later expanded into a novel. 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 of The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1984), both directed by Francis Ford Coppola, 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] Works

[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)

[edit] For adults

• Hawkes Harbor (2004)
• Some of Tim's Stories (2007)

[edit] External links

• S.E. Hinton's Website
• S.E. Hinton at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Press Interview
• 1987 RealAudio interview with S.E. Hinton by Don Swaim

[edit] References

1. ^ "1988 Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner". ala.org (Undated). Retrieved on 2007-03-06.
2. ^ "Big Bluestem—1997’s Big Winner at Eighth Annual Oklahoma Book Awards". Oklahoma Center for the Book, Oklahoma Department of Libraries (Undated). Retrieved on 2007-03-06.

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NAME	Hinton, S. E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Young-adult writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tulsa, Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH