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.

S.E. Hinton (born July 22, 1950, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.) is an American author known for writing about the difficult social system that teenagers create among themselves.

Born July 22, 1948, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as Susan Eloise Hinton, S. E. Hinton, the dean of young-adult literature, published her phenomenally best-selling first novel, The Outsiders, while still a junior in …

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 …

May 13, 2007 · S. E. Hinton, born Susan Eloise Hinton in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a significant figure in young adult literature, known for pioneering a genre that realistically addresses adolescent issues.

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Her career began with the publication of her first book, The Outsiders (1967), at the age of seventeen. Susan Eloise Hinton was born on July 22, 1950, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Remarking that there was little …

S. E. Hinton wrote her first novel, The Outsiders, when she was 16. She was the recipient of the American Library Association’s first Margaret...

S.E. Hinton, was and still is, one of the most popular and best known writers of young adult fiction. Her books have been taught in some schools, and banned from others.

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