SE Hinton why does she go by that name?

Answer 1

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. (Taken from S.E. Hinton answer on WikiAnswers).

Answer 2

S. E. Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton) goes by her initials because when she was writing The Outsiders, her publisher thought it would be better to have her initials than her full name because people assume The Outsiders is by a boy and they would think a girl could not write that kind of story.

In The Outsiders, towards the back of the book is a Q & A about S. E. Hinton. The question was "Why do you use your initials instead of your full name?"

Hinton replied "My publisher was afraid that the reviewers would assume a girl couldn't write a book like The Outsiders. Later, when my books became popular, I found I liked the privacy of having a "public" name and a private one, so it has worked out fine.And at that time girls were like the bottom of the social class(1948)

Answer 3

SE Hinton goes by that name because her publishers did not want the people who were going to buy it that she was a girl. They thought that the people thought that she wouldn't know how to describe fights, being a girl, so they just put SE Hinton on the book.

Answer 4

S.E. Hinton is a pen name used by Susan Eloise Hinton, the author of novels such as "The Outsiders" and "That Was Then, This Is Now." She chose to use her initials to avoid any biases or gender stereotypes in the publishing industry at the time, allowing her work to be judged solely on its own merit.