Last Updated: 02 Oct, 2023 | Views: 1062
Age: 76
Profession: Writer
Famous For: The Outsiders
Net Worth: $10 Million Approx.
About (Profile/Biography)
The young adult novels That Was Then, This Is Now and The Outsiders by American author Susan Eloise Hinton are her best-known works. Hinton, who was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 22, 1948, started writing when she was 15 years old. The author is highly known for her skill at perfectly capturing teenage angst and societal issues in her books.
S. E. Hinton Career:
S.E. Hinton started writing "The Outsiders" when she was just 15 years old. It has sold over 14 million copies since then!
Viking Press stated that in 2017, it sold over 500,000 copies a year.
Hinton is a boss author who's written a bunch of other young adult novels like "That Was Then, This Is Now" and "Rumble Fish."
Her books even got turned into movies, and she's done some screenwriting herself.
Hinton was so involved in the movie adaptations that she acted as a location scout and even had some cameo roles in three out of four films.
Hinton played a nurse in Dallas's hospital room in "The Outsiders"
S. E. Hinton Famous Books:
The novels "Tex," "Rumble Fish," and "That Was Then, This Is Now" are some of Hinton's other well-known works.
S. E. Hinton Family:
She was one of five children and the middle kid in the family. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom, while her father worked for an airline. In 1970, she wed David Inhofe, and the two are parents to Nicholas.
S. E. Hinton Awards:
In 1988, she received the inaugural Margaret A. Edwards Award for her significant contribution to young adult literature.
She has also been awarded the George Mason University's Mary Helen Cochran Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Tulsa Library Trust's 2014 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, among others.
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