While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. In 1988, she received the inaugural Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her cumulative contribution in writing for teens.

Hinton is credited with introducing the YA genre. Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school. Young-adult novels, children's books, screenplays 'An Outsider, Out of the Shadows (page 2)'. Overall, Hinton has won 19 awards from 21 nominations. Hinton's first and only award for a children's book is the 'Parent's Choice Silver Honor Book Award,' which she won for The Puppy Sister. In 1979, Hinton received three other awards for both Tex and Taming the Star Runner. Hinton has also won a ' School Library Journal Best Books of the Year Award' for Rumble Fish (in 1975), and Tex and Taming the Star Runner (in 1979). Hinton has won the ' ALA Best Books for Young Adults Award' four times she won the award for That Was Then, This Is Now (in 1971), Rumble Fish (in 1975) and for Tex and Taming the Star Runner (in 1979). Hinton has won many awards for her books. Overall, Hinton has written nine published books. Hinton's most recent book, Some of Tim's Stories, was published in 2007 and is Hinton's third children's book. In 2004, Hawkes Harbor, Hinton's first adult novel, was released. Seven years after Taming the Star Runner, Hinton released her first children's book, Big David, Little David, which followed with the release of The Puppy Sister in 1995. Hinton's next novel Taming the Star Runner was her first book that wasn't written in first-person point of view.

Four years later in 1979, Tex was published and would be Hinton's last book for nine years as she devoted her time to raise her child. Following that, she wrote her shortest novel, Rumble Fish it was published in 1975 after she had published a short story version in a 1968 edition of University of Tulsa's Alumni Magazine. Hinton followed the advice given to her and wrote her second novel, That Was Then, This Is Now in 1971. After experiencing a writer's block and going into a state of depression, Hinton met somebody in her freshmen biology class, who inspired her to continue writing. In 1983, The Outsiders became a movie, and was later released onto DVD. The Outsiders has sold over fourteen million copies since it was published. Hinton based the characters, the Greasers and the Socs, off of teenage gangs and alienated youth in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 1960s. The Outsiders was Hinton's first published book in 1967 Hinton started the book at the age of fifteen. Hinton) is an American author who is best known for writing young adult fiction.

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