Hinton has married and now has a teenaged son, Nick. This eventually led to That Was Then, This Is Now.In the years since, Ms. He made her write two pages a day if she wanted to go anywhere. 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. Hinton was becoming known as "The Voice of the Youth" among other titles. The book was also made into a film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and featuring such future stars as Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, and Tom Cruise.Once published, The Outsiders gave her a lot of publicity and fame, and also a lot of pressure.
The Outsiders was published during Hinton's freshman year at the University of Tulsa, and was an immediate sensation.Today, with more than eight million copies in print, the book is the best-selling young adult novel of all time, and one of the most hauntingly powerful views into the thoughts and feelings of teenagers. Since her narrator was male, it was decided that Hinton use only her first initials so as not to put off boys who would not normally read books written by women. Disturbed by the divisions among her schoolmates into two groups-the Greasers and the Socs-Hinton wrote The Outsiders, an honest, sometimes shocking novel told from the point of view of an orphaned 14-year-old Greaser named Ponyboy Curtis. Download our free app for Apple, Android and Kindle devices.Susan Eloise Hinton's career as an author began while she was still a student at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Stay in touch with us anytime, anywhere. She also published two children's books and two adult fiction novels, as well as an autobiography.ĭue to her achievements, Hinton is credited for introducing the young adult genre in literature. Two of them later became Hollywood movies, both directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Since then, she has published four more YA novels and all were set in Oklahoma. Even after the successful publishing of The Outsiders, she still continued to publish books under her pen name. It's since sold over 14 million copies and sells up to half a million copies a year.Īt the time, Hinton's publisher suggested she go by her initials so book readers wouldn't dismiss her novel due to gender. The book was published by the time she was 16 in 1967. She wanted to write a novel from a Greaser's point of view and how that plays out in rival gangs. She first began writing The Outsiders inspired by her high school years at Will Rogers High School. As a teen, Hinton became a household name after publishing her most popular novel, The Outsiders. Hinton is an American writer and she's a famous Okie!īorn on July 22, 1948, as Susan Eloise Hinton, she was born and raised in Tulsa.
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