Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22[2], 1950[1]) is an American author and is most famous for her young adult novel The Outsiders.
Biography
Early life
Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, on July 22, 1950[1]. She first began writing in her sophomore year at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa.
S.E. Hinton is most widely known as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel. As her father was dying of a brain tumor, the book was inspired by two rival gangs in her high school, the Greasers and the Socs. The Outsiders was published by Viking in 1967, and it became the second-best-selling young-adult novel in publishing history, with more than 13[3] million copies.[4]
Hinton's publisher suggested she use her initials instead of her first name so that male reviewers would not ignore the novel for having been written by a female. She chose to continue using her initials, perhaps to better separate her public life from her private life.
After The Outsiders
Publicity and pressure led to 3 years of writer's block for the young author. Hinton's boyfriend was tired of her being depressed all the time, and suggested she write two pages a day. She did so, and completed That Was Then, This Is Now in the Summer of 1970. She married her boyfriend a few months later. That Was Then, This Is Now was published in 1971.[5]
Hinton attended the University of Tulsa and earned her B.S. degree in 1970. In 1989 she was the first recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the ALA.[6] 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.[7]
After The Outsiders, her best-known book is Rumble Fish, which was originally published 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, Tex (1979), and Taming the Star Runner (1988).
Film adaptations of The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (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 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. She acted as a location scout, and she had cameo roles in three of the four films. Hinton plays the nurse in Dally's room for The Outsiders. In Tex, she is one of the teachers. She appears as a prostitute propositioning Rusty James in Rumble Fish.
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, and that horseback riding is her hobby.[5]
She currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband, David Inhofe. Her son, Nick, has been away at college.[2][5]
Bibliography
Young adult books
Juvenile books
- Big David, Little David (1995, picture book)
- The Puppy Sister (1995, chapter book)
Adult books
- Hawkes Harbor (2004, novel)
- Some of Tim's Stories (2006, short stories)
References
External links
| Persondata |
| NAME |
Hinton, S. E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES |
Hinton, Susan Eloise |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
Young-adult writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
July 22, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| DATE OF DEATH |
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| PLACE OF DEATH |
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