About the Author
S.E. Hinton
Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novel The Outsiders. For her cumulative contribution to young-adult literature she received the inaugural Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1988.
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. The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School, the Greasers and the Socs, and her desire to show sympathy toward the Greasers by writing from their point of view. It was published by Viking Press in 1967, during her freshman year at the University of Tulsa.Since then, the book has sold more than 14 million copies and still sells more than 500,000 a year.
Hinton's publisher suggested she use her initials instead of her feminine given names so that the very first male book reviewers would not dismiss the novel because its author was female. 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, and to allow her to keep her private and public lives separate. (Source: Wikipedia)
Other Books by S.E. Hinton
That Was Then, This is now
Rumble Fish
Tex
Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novel The Outsiders. For her cumulative contribution to young-adult literature she received the inaugural Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1988.
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. The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School, the Greasers and the Socs, and her desire to show sympathy toward the Greasers by writing from their point of view. It was published by Viking Press in 1967, during her freshman year at the University of Tulsa.Since then, the book has sold more than 14 million copies and still sells more than 500,000 a year.
Hinton's publisher suggested she use her initials instead of her feminine given names so that the very first male book reviewers would not dismiss the novel because its author was female. 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, and to allow her to keep her private and public lives separate. (Source: Wikipedia)
Other Books by S.E. Hinton
That Was Then, This is now
Rumble Fish
Tex