S.E. Hinton

S.E. Hinton is know to be as the voice of the youth because she is known to connect to younger people and what they're going through and she makes connections with them. The kind of pressure that was put on her because of that title put her into depression and resulted into a 3 year writers block. Her husband had gotten sick of her being depressed all the time and eventually broke the block. Eventually it led her to write That Was Then, This Is Now. That Was Then, This Is Now, is also known to be even more well then the Outsiders.

The author usually writes about young adults. Her genre is usually something to do with teenagers or kids so it would be Realistic Young Adult Fiction. Her characters are usually teenagers or kids. Her setting is usually somewhere outside. Her plot is usually something with people not getting along. Her theme is usually always get along with other people.

When S.E. wrote the Outsiders, she wrote it about her high school. It relates to her school because they had these groups between rich and poor and that's what it was all about and she decided to call them the greasers and the socs. The socs  were the rich people and drank and partied. The greasers were poor and they smoked instead of drank.

S.E. Hinton was born in Tulsa,OK. She still lives there today. She was born July 22, 1948. She went to Will Rogers high school and she was a junior in high school when she wrote the book. She wrote these books.

S. E. Hinton has received awards and honors for many of her books, but the ones for The Outsiders include: Best teenage books list for the New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune Book World Spring Book Festival Honor Book, Media and Methods Maxi Award, American Library Association Best Young Adults Books, Massachusetts