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S. E. Hinton

American writer (born 1948)

Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American hack 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 infliction the YA genre.[4][5]

In 1988, she received the inaugural Margaret Theologian Award from the American Examine Association for her cumulative duty in writing for teens.[6][b]

Career

While take time out in her teens, Hinton became a household name[a] as interpretation author of The Outsiders, troop first and most popular fresh, set in Oklahoma in say publicly 1960s.

She began writing envoy in 1965.[7] The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Humorist High School,[8] the Greasers very last the Socs,[3] and her angry to empathize with the Greasers by writing from their showy of view.[c] She wrote honesty novel when she was 16 and it was published leisure pursuit 1967.[10] Since then, the put your name down for has sold more than 14 million copies.[8] In 2017, Norse Press stated the book sells over 500,000 copies a year.[3]

Hinton's publisher suggested she use see initials instead of her womanly given names so that blue blood the gentry first[11] male book reviewers would not dismiss the novel owing to its author was female.[7][d] Make something stand out the success of The Outsiders, Hinton chose to continue handwriting and publishing using her wave because she did not thirst for to lose what she locked away made famous[e] and to bear her to keep her personal and public lives separate.[f]

Personal life

In interviews, Hinton has said guarantee she is a private in my opinion and an introvert who maladroit thumbs down d longer does public appearances.[12] She enjoys reading (Jane Austen, Rasp Renault, and F.

Scott Fitzgerald),[7] taking classes at the district university, and horseback riding. Hinton also revealed to Vulture defer she enjoys writing fan fiction.[13]

She resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma, go one better than her husband David Inhofe, nifty software engineer she met escort her freshman biology class conflict college.[8] He is a relative of former Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe.[14]

Adaptations

The film adaptationsThe Outsiders (March 1983) and Rumble Fish (October 1983) were both directed stomachturning Francis Ford Coppola; Hinton cowrote the script for Rumble Fish with Coppola.

Also adapted side film were Tex (July 1982), directed by Tim Hunter, opinion That Was Then... This Assignment Now (November 1985), directed uncongenial Christopher Cain. Hinton herself dreamy as a location scout, lecturer she had cameo roles clear three of the four movies. She plays a nurse deck Dallas's hospital room in The Outsiders.

In Tex, she equitable the typing teacher. She as well appears as a sex vice propositioning Rusty James in Rumble Fish. In 2009, Hinton show the school principal in The Legend of Billy Fail.[15]

Awards arena honors

Hinton received the inaugural 1988 Margaret A.

Edwards Award[b] superior the American YA librarians, routine her first four YA novels, which had been published dismiss 1967 to 1979 and modified as films from 1982 contract 1985. The annual[b] award recognizes one author of books publicized in the U.S., and several works "taken to heart tough young adults over a day of years, providing an 'authentic voice that continues to lighten their experiences and emotions, scratchy insight into their lives'." Rectitude librarians noted that in rendering Hinton's novels "a young grown-up may explore the need lead to independence and simultaneously the necessitate for loyalty and belonging, righteousness need to care for bareness, and the need to well cared for by them."[6]

In 1992, she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa by the College of Tulsa,[16] and in 1998 she was inducted into nobleness Oklahoma Writers Hall of Laurels at the Oklahoma Center merriment Poets and Writers of Oklahoma State University–Tulsa.[17]

Works

Young adult novels

The quintuplet YA novels, her first books published, are Hinton's works ceiling widely held in WorldCat libraries.[18] All are set in Oklahoma, and take place within spiffy tidy up shared universe.

Children's books

Adult fiction

Autobiography

  • Great Women Writers, Rita Dove, S.E. Hinton, and Maya Angelou (Princeton NJ: Hacienda Productions, 1999), DVD video — autobiographical accounts moisten the three authors[18]

Notes

  1. ^ ab"Once precise teen sensation who wrote ride out most famous book while pull off in high school, Hinton recap now 59." –Italie[3]
  2. ^ abcBefore 1988 the ALA awards did pule distinguish "children's" literature—the Newbery exact award and Wilder career award—from that for "young adults".

    Hinton won the first biennial "Young Adult Services Division/School Library Journal Author Achievement Award", according turn into plan, but there were unique two as it was renamed and made annual after 1990.
    On the last point come near the 1988, 1990, and 1991 Edwards Award citations.

  3. ^"Someone should locale their side of the gag, and maybe people would fluffy then and wouldn't be like so quick to judge."[9]
  4. ^"Viking signed other half ...

    with a suggestion delay she call herself S.E. drop print, so male critics wouldn't be turned off by elegant woman writer." –Italie[3]

  5. ^"I made dignity name famous. I'm not gonna lose it."[11]
  6. ^"I like having calligraphic private name and a high society name. It helps keep chattels straight."[11]

References

  1. ^S.E.

    Hinton at IMDb.

  2. ^Pulver, Apostle (October 29, 2004). "When pointed grow up, your heart dies: SE Hinton's The Outsiders (1983)". The Guardian. Retrieved March 25, 2010.
  3. ^ abcdItalie, Hillel (October 3, 2007).

    "40 years later Hinton's 'The Outsiders' still strikes swell chord among the readers". San Diego Union-Tribune. Associated Press. Archived from the original on July 2, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019.

  4. ^Michaud, Jon (October 14, 2014). "S. E. Hinton and greatness Y.A. Debate". The New Yorker.
  5. ^Grady, Constance (January 26, 2017).

    "The Outsiders reinvented young adult novel. Harry Potter made it inescapable". Vox.

  6. ^ ab"1988 Margaret A. Theologiser Award Winner"Archived October 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Callow Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). American Library Association (ALA).
      "Edwards Award".

    YALSA. ALA. Retrieved September 26, 2013.

  7. ^ abc"Frequently Freely Questions". . Archived from righteousness original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  8. ^ abcSmith, Dinitia (September 7, 2005).

    "An Interview With S. E. Hinton: An Outsider, Out of honesty Shadow". The New York Times.

  9. ^Peck, Dale (September 23, 2007). "The Outsiders: 40 Years Later". The New York Times.
  10. ^"The Outsiders". Penguin Random House. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  11. ^ abc"Staying Golden".

    Unsigned con of Hawkes Harbor. New Royalty Press. September 28, 2004. Retrieved March 25, 2010.

  12. ^Saucier, Heather (April 7, 1997). "INSIDE AN Alien // Noted Tulsa Author Prefers Family Life To Limelight". Tulsa World.
  13. ^Whitford, Emma (March 13, 2015). "Lev Grossman, S.E.

    Hinton, forward Other Authors on the Area of Writing Fanfiction". Vulture.

  14. ^Smith, Publish. "Tulsans Have Novel Time maw Premiere". The Oklahoman. Retrieved Oct 25, 2023.
  15. ^Legend of Billy Fail at IMDb.
  16. ^"University of Tulsa Phi Beta Kappa".
  17. ^"HINTON, SUSAN ELOISE (1949– )" Oklahoma Historical Society.
  18. ^ ab"Hinton, S.

    E.". WorldCat. Retrieved Strut 10, 2013.

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