S.E. Hinton

Who is S.E. Hinton?

Hinton published her most successful novel; The Outsiders, when she was eighteen. She has since gone on to publish nine further books, one of which is an autobiography. Hinton received the inaugural 1988 Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American YA librarians. In 1992 she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa by the University of Tulsa and in 1998 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame at the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers of Oklahoma State University–Tulsa. She continues to write and she lives with her husband, who is a software engineer.