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50 years ago, a 16 year old from Oklahoma named Susan Eloise Hinton published her first book. She’d started writing it when she was 14, and it became the best selling young adult novel of all time.

I began writing in grade school, eager to make my own stories happen the way I wanted to. I had access to the local library, but my family thought my writing was some weird phase I would outgrow. I had some great English teachers who encouraged me through grade school, middle school, high school. I also made a D in creative writing the year (junior in high school) I wrote The Outsiders.

Her contract for The Outsiders arrived the day she graduated high school, and because she wasn’t yet 21, her mother had to sign too. She originally began working on the book because “I wanted to read a book that dealt realistically with teen life as I saw it.” Her publisher recommended releasing the book under “S.E. Hinton” instead of her actual first name, because a book written by a teenage girl might “throw some of the boy readers off.” She continued later to publish unde

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S. E. Hinton

American writer (born 1948)

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

In 1988, she received the inaugural Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her cumulative contribution in writing for teens.^[6]^[b]

Career

While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name^[a] as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began writing it in 1965.^[7] The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School,^[8] the Greasers and the Socs,^[3] and her desire to empathize with the Greasers by writing from their point of view.^[c] She wrote the novel when she was 16 and it was published in 1967.^[10] Since then, the book has sold more than 14 million copies

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Biography

Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has always enjoyed reading but wasn't satisfied with the literature that was being written for young adults, which influenced her to write novels like The Outsiders. That book, her first novel, was published in 1967 by Viking.

Once published, The Outsiders gave her a lot of publicity and fame, and also a lot of pressure. S.E. Hinton was becoming known as “The Voice of the Youth” among other titles. This kind of pressure and publicity resulted in a three year long writer's block.

Her boyfriend (and now, her husband), who had gotten sick of her being depressed all the time, eventually broke this block. He made her write two pages a day if she wanted to go anywhere. This eventually led to That Was Then, This Is Now.

That Was Then, This Is Now is known to be a much more well thought out book than The Outsiders. Because she read a lot of great literature and wanted to better herself, she made sure that she wrote each sentence exactly right. She continued to write her two pages a day until she finally fel