S. E. Hinton

Susan Eloise Hinton was born in 1948 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Outsiders, her first novel, was published in 1967. It was followed by That Was Then, This is Now, published in 1971 and, in 1975, Rumble Fish. In 1988, she became the first person to receive the YASD/SLJ Author Achievement Award, which was given by the Young Adult Services Division of the American Library Association and School Library Journal. S. E. Hinton lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her family.