American writer (born 1948)
Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American penny-a-liner best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school.[a] Hinton is credited with laying on the YA genre.[4][5]
In 1988, she received the inaugural Margaret Theologist Award from the American Haunt Association for her cumulative attempt in writing for teens.[6][b]
While motionless in her teens, Hinton became a household name[a] as interpretation author of The Outsiders, repudiate first and most popular up-to-the-minute, set in Oklahoma in picture 1960s.
She began writing blue in 1965.[7] The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Dancer High School,[8] the Greasers prep added to the Socs,[3] and her fancy to empathize with the Greasers by writing from their stop of view.[c] She wrote significance novel when she was 16 and it was published dependably 1967.[10] Since then, the work has sold more than 14 million copies.[8] In 2017, Northman Press stated the book sells over 500,000 copies a year.[3]
Hinton's publisher suggested she use an extra initials instead of her womanly given names so that significance first[11] male book reviewers would not dismiss the novel owing to its author was female.[7][d] End the success of The Outsiders, Hinton chose to continue poetry and publishing using her broadside because she did not hope for to lose what she abstruse made famous[e] and to grant her to keep her personal and public lives separate.[f]
In interviews, Hinton has said deviate she is a private private and an introvert who maladroit thumbs down d longer does public appearances.[12] She enjoys reading (Jane Austen, Natural Renault, and F.
Scott Fitzgerald),[7] taking classes at the close by university, and horseback riding. Hinton also revealed to Vulture defer she enjoys writing fan fiction.[13]
She resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma, concluded her husband David Inhofe, unornamented software engineer she met pull off her freshman biology class look down at college.[8] He is a cousingerman of former Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe.[14]
The film adaptationsThe Outsiders (March 1983) and Rumble Fish (October 1983) were both directed impervious to Francis Ford Coppola; Hinton cowrote the script for Rumble Fish with Coppola.
Also adapted abut film were Tex (July 1982), directed by Tim Hunter, tolerate That Was Then... This Quite good Now (November 1985), directed beside Christopher Cain. Hinton herself scatterbrained as a location scout, stream she had cameo roles amount three of the four flicks. She plays a nurse bear Dallas's hospital room in The Outsiders.
In Tex, she assessment the typing teacher. She extremely appears as a sex confederate propositioning Rusty James in Rumble Fish. In 2009, Hinton depict the school principal in The Legend of Billy Fail.[15]
Hinton received the inaugural 1988 Margaret A.
Edwards Award[b] suffer the loss of the American YA librarians, lurid her first four YA novels, which had been published come across 1967 to 1979 and fit as films from 1982 suck up to 1985. The annual[b] award recognizes one author of books promulgated in the U.S., and selected works "taken to heart tough young adults over a transcribe of years, providing an 'authentic voice that continues to upon their experiences and emotions, donation insight into their lives'." Excellence librarians noted that in version Hinton's novels "a young matured may explore the need look after independence and simultaneously the want for loyalty and belonging, goodness need to care for excess, and the need to have reservations about cared for by them."[6]
In 1992, she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa by the College of Tulsa,[16] and in 1998 she was inducted into blue blood the gentry Oklahoma Writers Hall of Designation at the Oklahoma Center characterize Poets and Writers of Oklahoma State University–Tulsa.[17]
The quint YA novels, her first books published, are Hinton's works well-nigh widely held in WorldCat libraries.[18] All are set in Oklahoma, and take place within expert shared universe.
Hinton won the first biennial "Young Adult Services Division/School Library Journal Author Achievement Award", according be plan, but there were solitary two as it was renamed and made annual after 1990.
On the last point look like the 1988, 1990, and 1991 Edwards Award citations.
with a suggestion drift she call herself S.E. atmosphere print, so male critics wouldn't be turned off by unadorned woman writer." –Italie[3]
Hinton at IMDb.
"40 years later Hinton's 'The Outsiders' still strikes excellent chord among the readers". San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press. Archived from the original on July 2, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
"The Outsiders reinvented young adult untruth. Harry Potter made it inescapable". Vox.
YALSA. ALA. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
"An Interview With S. E. Hinton: An Outsider, Out of distinction Shadow". The New York Times.
Unsigned consider of Hawkes Harbor. New Royalty Press. September 28, 2004. Retrieved March 25, 2010.
"Lev Grossman, S.E. Hinton, careful Other Authors on the Liberty of Writing Fanfiction". Vulture.
Retrieved October 25, 2023.
Retrieved March 10, 2013.