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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]
Jun 17, 2024 · S.E. Hinton is an American author known for writing about the difficult social system that teenagers create among themselves. Her fiction depicting that system struck a chord with readers, who saw in it many elements of the system that existed in their own schools and towns.
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Learn about S.E. Hinton, one of the most popular and best known writers of young adult fiction. Visit the Outsiders House Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the movie adaptation of her novel was filmed.
Learn about the life and works of S.E. Hinton, the author of The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now, and other young adult novels. Find out how she became the "Voice of the Youth" and what she does in her free time.
Mar 12, 2017 · S.E. Hinton, a teenager when she wrote “The Outsiders,” at the bungalow in Tulsa, Okla., that stood in for Ponyboy Curtis’s home in the 1983 film adaptation of the novel. Andrea Morales for ...
The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider.