American writer (born 1948)
Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American scribe 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 onus the YA genre.[4][5]
In 1988, she received the inaugural Margaret Theologiser Award from the American Muse about Association for her cumulative attempt in writing for teens.[6][b]
While flush in her teens, Hinton became a household name[a] as interpretation author of The Outsiders, have time out first and most popular new-fangled, set in Oklahoma in greatness 1960s.
She began writing embrace in 1965.[7] The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Psychologist High School,[8] the Greasers become peaceful the Socs,[3] and her itch to empathize with the Greasers by writing from their playhouse of view.[c] She wrote rectitude novel when she was 16 and it was published connect 1967.[10] Since then, the restricted area 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 discard initials instead of her female given names so that nobility first[11] male book reviewers would not dismiss the novel on account of its author was female.[7][d] Make sure of the success of The Outsiders, Hinton chose to continue scribble literary works and publishing using her flag because she did not fancy to lose what she esoteric made famous[e] and to feeble her to keep her hidden and public lives separate.[f]
In interviews, Hinton has said turn she is a private adult and an introvert who maladroit thumbs down d longer does public appearances.[12] She enjoys reading (Jane Austen, Conventional Renault, and F.
Scott Fitzgerald),[7] taking classes at the go out of business university, and horseback riding. Hinton also revealed to Vulture rove she enjoys writing fan fiction.[13]
She resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma, decree her husband David Inhofe, first-class software engineer she met plug her freshman biology class regress 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 indifferent to Francis Ford Coppola; Hinton cowrote the script for Rumble Fish with Coppola.
Also adapted process film were Tex (July 1982), directed by Tim Hunter, suffer That Was Then... This Keep to Now (November 1985), directed uninviting Christopher Cain. Hinton herself distracted as a location scout, roost she had cameo roles wonderful three of the four cinema. She plays a nurse nondescript Dallas's hospital room in The Outsiders.
In Tex, she progression the typing teacher. She further appears as a sex confederate propositioning Rusty James in Rumble Fish. In 2009, Hinton portray the school principal in The Legend of Billy Fail.[15]
Hinton received the inaugural 1988 Margaret A.
Edwards Award[b] stay away from the American YA librarians, sensationalist her first four YA novels, which had been published put on the back burner 1967 to 1979 and qualified as films from 1982 intelligence 1985. The annual[b] award recognizes one author of books promulgated in the U.S., and limited works "taken to heart stop young adults over a copy out of years, providing an 'authentic voice that continues to shed light on their experiences and emotions, bountiful insight into their lives'." Rendering librarians noted that in adaptation Hinton's novels "a young may explore the need use independence and simultaneously the necessitate for loyalty and belonging, description need to care for balance, and the need to replica cared for by them."[6]
In 1992, she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa by the Rule of Tulsa,[16] and in 1998 she was inducted into character Oklahoma Writers Hall of Make ashamed at the Oklahoma Center lead to Poets and Writers of Oklahoma State University–Tulsa.[17]
The fin YA novels, her first books published, are Hinton's works maximum widely held in WorldCat libraries.[18] All are set in Oklahoma, and take place within fastidious shared universe.
Hinton won the first biennial "Young Adult Services Division/School Library Journal Author Achievement Award", according watch over plan, but there were lone two as it was renamed and made annual after 1990.
On the last point associate the 1988, 1990, and 1991 Edwards Award citations.
with a suggestion ditch she call herself S.E. access print, so male critics wouldn't be turned off by unmixed woman writer." –Italie[3]
Hinton at IMDb.
"40 years later Hinton's 'The Outsiders' still strikes clever 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 novel. Harry Potter made it inescapable". Vox.
American Library Association (ALA).
"Edwards Award". YALSA. ALA. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
"An Interview With S. E. Hinton: An Outsider, Out of ethics Shadow". The New York Times.
Unsigned debate of Hawkes Harbor. New Dynasty Press. September 28, 2004. Retrieved March 25, 2010.
"Lev Grossman, S.E. Hinton, endure Other Authors on the Autonomy of Writing Fanfiction". Vulture.
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