Susan Eloise Hinton is a published author. While still in high school she wrote novels. Her hometown was Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hinton describe words of how she was feeling in The Outsiders. This book is considered a classic story of two sets of high school rivals. Hinton launched an uprising in young adult literature. Hinton's publishers suggested that she distribute under the name of S. E. Hinton. This was mainly due to the fear that a reader wouldn't respect a story written by a woman. Hinton express, "I don't mind having two identities; in fact, I like keeping the writer part separate in some ways. And since my alter ego is clearly a 15-year-old boy, having an authorial self that doesn't suggest a gender is just fine with me."
These days, more than twenty-five years after its first publication, The Outsiders ranks as a traditional still and one of the most important books in the turf. She has been attributed as someone who was writing about the authentic concerns and emotions of a adolescent. The Outsiders patent the foundation of an innovative kind of realism in books written for teenagers. She wrote her following book while she was in college at the University of Tulsa. She has been studying to be a teacher. Hinton says "I don't have the nerve or physical stamina to teach," she goes on to say. "I did my student teaching, but I couldn't leave the kids and their problems behind me; I'd go home and worry about them. I think people who are good teachers do one of the most important jobs there is; I can't praise them highly enough."
David Inhofe was her boyfriend then and was influential in helping her get her succeeding book written. Hinton was distress from writer's block. Inhofe wouldn’t let her go out at night unless she wrote two pages. She soon had a draft that became That Was Then, This is Now. This was a story of drugs, criminal behaviors, and a rough kid making a life altering choices. She married David in 1970. She published the...