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She didn't want her audienes' thoughts on her books to be influenced by her gender.

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S.E. Hinton chose to use her initials rather than her full name, Susan Eloise Hinton, to avoid any potential gender bias or discrimination in the male-dominated field of young adult literature when she published her first novel, "The Outsiders," at the age of 17.

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