-Information on the author's background:
-Susan Eloise Hinton was born in 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For education she attended the University of Tulsa. She enjoys reading and writing, but dislikes talking about her personal life. Her boyfriend is the one that she ended up marrying. She also said that the life of a writer isn’t very interesting. Some interesting facts about her life are that she was trained to be a teacher, but she never taught.
-A list of books the author has written: (include links or images of the books)
She has written a total of nine books; they are The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, That Was Then, This is Now, Taming the Star Runner, Hawks Harbor, Tex, Tim’s Stories, Big David, Little David, The Puppy Sister.
-A summary/generalization of what the author typically writes about (genre, characters, setting, plot, theme, etc), why she writes, and how she became successful:
She wasn’t satisfied with the young adult books of her age, so that inspired her to write more about it. She also said that almost always writes from a boy’s view because she said that they have fewer books written for them. Girls will read boy books, but boys won’t read girl books. The Outsiders gave her a lot of publicity and pressure, and that stopped her from writing for another three years. The was know as “The voice of the youth.”
-Awards, honors, accomplishments:
She was given the Margaret Edwards Young Adult Author Achievement Award in 1988, Massachusetts Children's Book Award. School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, and New York Herald Tribune Best Teenage Books List and many more are also on the list of awards.
-A photo of the author:
-A prediction of what you think "The Outsiders" will be like. Do you think you will like or dislike the book? Why? What surprised you about SE Hinton in your research? I think I will like the book a lot because it is more attuned to our age and what we could have to deal with. I was surprised that Hinton was able to publish a book at such a young age.
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