S.E. Hinton began writing The Outsiders at age 15 and had a publisher by the time she graduated high school. She still lives in her hometown of Fresno, California and has published nine books for children.
S. E. Hinton appears in the following:
American Icons: 'The Outsiders'
Thursday, May 05, 2016
S.E. Hinton was a teenager herself when she wrote a novel that broke all the rules of young adult fiction.
American Icons: The Outsiders
Friday, May 04, 2012
Susan Eloise Hinton was a teenager when she wrote The Outsiders, the story of rival gangs in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She used the pen name “S.E.” so readers wouldn’t know she was a girl, an...
