S.E. Hinton

About S.E. Hinton

She was a young adult fiction novelist from the United States who wrote the classic novel The Outsiders when she was just sixteen years old. The Margaret Edwards Award was given to her by the American Library Association in 1988.

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer best known for her childhood novels set in Oklahoma, specifically The Outsiders, which she wrote when she was in high school. Hinton is said to have introduced the YA genre. In 1988, she received the American Library Association's first Margaret Edwards Prize for her cumulative contributions to writing for teenagers.

Genre	Young-adult novels, children's books, screenplays
Occupation	Writer
Period	1967–present
Born	Susan Eloise Hinton, July 22, 1948, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Nationality	American
Notable awards	Margaret Edwards Award, 1988

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Trivia

She received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.

S.E. Hinton before fame

Her book The Outsiders was inspired by her observations of warring gangs at her high school in Oklahoma. When she was a first-year student at the University of Tulsa, the novel was published.

Achievement of S.E. Hinton

In 1997, she was honored with the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$10 Million

S.E. Hinton family life

Susan Eloise Hinton is her true name. In 1970, she married engineer David Inhofe, with whom she had a son named Nicolas.

Associations of S.E. Hinton

Her novels were the inspiration for two Francis Ford Coppola films, The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, both released in 1983.

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