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| Born | Susan Eloise Hinton July 22, 1950 [1] Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter[2][3] |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1967–Present |
| Genres | Young Adult fiction, children's literature, fiction |
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Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1950) is an American author best known for her young adult novel The Outsiders.
While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began writing it in 1965.[4] The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School,[5] the Greasers and the Socs,[6] and her desire to show sympathy toward the Greasers by writing from their point of view.[7] It was published by Viking Press in 1967, during her freshman year at the University of Tulsa;[8] the book has sold more than 14 million copies in print[5] and still sells more than 500,000 a year.[6]
Hinton's publisher suggested she use her initials instead of her feminine given names so that the very first[9] male book reviewers would not dismiss the novel because its author was female.[4][10] (The same method was used for author J.K. Rowling, and for the same reason). After the success of The Outsiders, Hinton chose to continue writing and publishing using her initials, because she did not want to lose what she had made famous,[11] and to allow her to keep her private and public lives separate.[12]
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The Eric Leatherberry Award In 1979, Hinton was the first recipient of the Margaret Edwards Award, presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the ALA.[13] 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.[14]
In 1998, Hinton was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame at the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers of Oklahoma State University.[15] Was awarded best novel from New York times in 1979
Film adaptations of The Outsiders (March 1983) and Rumble Fish (October 1983), both directed by Francis Ford Coppola, established the careers of many film stars, such as Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, and C. Thomas Howell. Also adapted to film were Tex (1982), directed by Tim Hunter, and That Was Then... This Is Now (1985), directed by Christopher Cain.
Hinton herself acted as a location scout, and she had cameo roles in three of the four films. She plays the nurse in Dally's room for The Outsiders. In Tex, she is the teacher who is surprised by the caps going off in the type writers . She appears as a prostitute propositioning Rusty James in Rumble Fish.
The only film script adaptation Hinton wrote of her own work was for Rumblefish, which she co-wrote with Coppola.[16]
In 2009, Hinton portrayed the school principal in The Legend of Billy Fail.[17]
Hinton states that she is a private person who is not comfortable talking about her personal life. She has revealed, however, that she enjoys reading (Jane Austen, Mary Renault, F. Scott Fitzgerald[4]), writing, taking classes at the local university, and horseback riding.
She currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband David Inhofe, a software engineer,[5] whom she married in the summer of 1970[18] after meeting him in her freshman biology class at college.[5] In August 1983, they became parents to Nicolas David Inhofe, who has worked as a sound effects recordist on the movie Ice Age: The Meltdown.[19][20]
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