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S. E. Hinton

American writer (born )

Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, ) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (), which she wrote during high school.[a] Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre.[4][5]

In , she received the inaugural Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her cumulative contribution in writing for teens.[6][b]

Career

While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name[a] as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the s.

Se hinton biography Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has always enjoyed reading but wasn't satisfied with the literature that was being written for young adults, which influenced her to write novels like The Outsiders. That book, her first novel, was published in by Viking.

She began writing it in [7] The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School,[8] the Greasers and the Socs,[3] and her desire to empathize with the Greasers by writing from their point of view.[c] She wrote the novel when she was 16 and it was published in [10] Since then, the book has sold more than 14 million copies.[8] In , Viking Press stated the book sells over , copies a year.[3]

Hinton's publisher suggested she use her initials instead of her feminine given names so that the first[11] male book reviewers would not dismiss the novel because its author was female.[7][d] 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[e] and to allow her to keep her private and public lives separate.[f]

Personal life

In interviews, Hinton has said that she is a private person and an introvert who no longer does public appearances.[12] She enjoys reading (Jane Austen, Mary Renault, and F.

Scott Fitzgerald),[7] taking classes at the local university, and horseback riding. Hinton also revealed to Vulture that she enjoys writing fan fiction.[13]

She resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her husband David Inhofe, a software engineer she met in her freshman biology class at college.[8] He is a cousin of former Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe.[14]

Adaptations

The film adaptationsThe Outsiders (March ) and Rumble Fish (October ) were both directed by Francis Ford Coppola; Hinton cowrote the script for Rumble Fish with Coppola.

Also adapted to film were Tex (July ), directed by Tim Hunter, and That Was Then This Is Now (November ), directed by Christopher Cain. Hinton herself acted as a location scout, and she had cameo roles in three of the four films.

Se hinton biography outsiders wgn news Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, ) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (), which she wrote during high school. [a] Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre. [4] [5].

She plays a nurse in Dallas's hospital room in The Outsiders. In Tex, she is the typing teacher. She also appears as a sex worker propositioning Rusty James in Rumble Fish. In , Hinton portrayed the school principal in The Legend of Billy Fail.[15]

Awards and honors

Hinton received the inaugural Margaret A.

Edwards Award[b] from the American YA librarians, citing her first four YA novels, which had been published from to and adapted as films from to The annual[b] award recognizes one author of books published in the U.S., and specified works "taken to heart by young adults over a period of years, providing an 'authentic voice that continues to illuminate their experiences and emotions, giving insight into their lives'." The librarians noted that in reading Hinton's novels "a young adult may explore the need for independence and simultaneously the need for loyalty and belonging, the need to care for others, and the need to be cared for by them."[6]

In , she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa by the University of Tulsa,[16] and in she was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame at the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers of Oklahoma State University–Tulsa.[17]

Works

Young adult novels

The five YA novels, her first books published, are Hinton's works most widely held in WorldCat libraries.[18] All are set in Oklahoma, and take place within a shared universe.

Children's books

Adult fiction

Autobiography

  • Great Women Writers, Rita Dove, S.E. Hinton, and Maya Angelou (Princeton NJ: Hacienda Productions, ), DVD video — autobiographical accounts by the three authors[18]

Notes

  1. ^ ab"Once a teen sensation who wrote her most famous book while still in high school, Hinton is now " –Italie[3]
  2. ^ abcBefore the ALA awards did not distinguish "children's" literature—the Newbery book award and Wilder career award—from that for "young adults".

    Hinton won the first biennial "Young Adult Services Division/School Library Journal Author Achievement Award", according to plan, but there were only two as it was renamed and made annual after
    On the last point compare the , , and Edwards Award citations.

  3. ^"Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn't be so quick to judge."[9]
  4. ^"Viking signed her with a suggestion that she call herself S.E.

    in print, so male critics wouldn't be turned off by a woman writer." –Italie[3]

  5. ^"I made the name famous. I'm not gonna lose it."[11]
  6. ^"I like having a private name and a public name.

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    11. It helps keep things straight."[11]

References

  1. ^S.E. Hinton at IMDb.
  2. ^Pulver, Andrew (October 29, ). "When you grow up, your heart dies: SE Hinton's The Outsiders ()". The Guardian. Retrieved March 25,
  3. ^ abcdItalie, Hillel (October 3, ).

    "40 years later Hinton's 'The Outsiders' still strikes a chord among the readers".

    Se hinton biography outsiders wgn radio

    S.E. Hinton is an American author known for writing about the difficult social system that teenagers create among themselves. Her fiction depicting that system struck a chord with readers, who saw in it many elements of the system that existed in their own schools and towns.

    San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press. Archived from the original on July 2, Retrieved June 13,

  4. ^Michaud, Jon (October 14, ). "S. E. Hinton and the Y.A. Debate". The New Yorker.
  5. ^Grady, Constance (January 26, ). "The Outsiders reinvented young adult fiction. Harry Potter made it inescapable".

    Vox.

  6. ^ ab" Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner"Archived October 6, , at the Wayback Machine. Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). American Library Association (ALA).
    &#; "Edwards Award". YALSA. ALA. Retrieved September 26,
  7. ^ abc"Frequently Asked Questions".

    Se hinton biography outsiders wgn wikipedia: Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, ) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (), which she wrote during high school. [a] Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre. [4] [5].

    . Archived from the original on October 13, Retrieved January 28,

  8. ^ abcSmith, Dinitia (September 7, ). "An Interview With S. E. Hinton: An Outsider, Out of the Shadow". The New York Times.
  9. ^Peck, Dale (September 23, ).

    "The Outsiders: 40 Years Later".

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    13. The New York Times.

  13. ^"The Outsiders". Penguin Random House. Retrieved November 18,
  14. ^ abc"Staying Golden". Unsigned review of Hawkes Harbor. New York Press. September 28, Retrieved March 25,
  15. ^Saucier, Heather (April 7, ).

    "INSIDE AN OUTSIDER // Noted Tulsa Author Prefers Family Life To Limelight". Tulsa World.

  16. ^Whitford, Emma (March 13, ). "Lev Grossman, S.E. Hinton, and Other Authors on the Freedom of Writing Fanfiction".

    Se hinton biography outsiders wgn S.E. Hinton is an American author known for writing about the difficult social system that teenagers create among themselves. Her fiction depicting that system struck a chord with readers, who saw in it many elements of the system that existed in their own schools and towns.

    Vulture.

  17. ^Smith, Sue. "Tulsans Have Novel Time at Premiere". The Oklahoman. Retrieved October 25,
  18. ^Legend of Billy Fail at IMDb.
  19. ^"University of Tulsa Phi Beta Kappa".
  20. ^"HINTON, SUSAN ELOISE (– )" Oklahoma Historical Society.
  21. ^ ab"Hinton, S.

    E.". WorldCat. Retrieved March 10,

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