![]() She did not write it in first person because as part of her writing process, she has to become the character when she writes in first person and she had just had a child when she began the novel. In 1988, she wrote Taming the Star Runner, her final book with a teenage protagonist it, too, was set in Oklahoma, but unlike her other novels, was written in third person. Her fourth book, Tex (1979), is set in a fictional suburb of Tulsa, and also features some of the characters from her earlier books, including Mark from The Outsiders, who is the escaped convict hitchhiker who kidnaps Tex and Mason. The novel also picks up some of the tensions from The Outsiders, as does her third novel, Rumble Fish. Inhofe encouraged her to write again, and she began work on her second young adult novel, That Was Then, This is Now (1971), which, like The Outsiders, was set in Tulsa. When she was in her freshman biology class, she met David Inhofe, whom she would later marry. Her success led to writer’s block, and she did not write again for the next three years, until she met her boyfriend in college. ![]() Because she was breaking new ground in terms of literature for young people, they started calling her “The Voice of Youth.” The book also won several awards. This led to the realization of a new market, one for young adults. However, it did achieve success in one key area: teachers were using it in their classrooms. The novel was not initially successful, and her first royalty check was for $10. Hinton received her contract from the publisher of The Outsiders the day she graduated from high school Her Publisher Advised Against Publishing Her Books As 'Susan' Her inspiration came not only from her experience in high school, but also from the novels that she read, including Gone With the Wind, and Great Expectations, and the stories of Harlan Ellison and Ray Bradbury. ![]() Her first book, The Outsiders (published 1967), was based on two rival gangs at her high school, Will Rogers High School, and she began writing it after a classmate was beaten up by the rich kids as he walked home. In 1965, she started writing a book that did seem to portray teenagers with veracity although her novels were rife with violence and evasion. She imagined writing a book about kids that they would want to read with characters that were true-to-life and facing more realistic, more challenging situations. A voracious reader who believed from a young age she'd become a writer, she noticed that books with teen protagonists were quite limited and did not encounter real-life situations. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Susan Eloise Hinton was born on Jin Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a door-to-door salesman and an assembly line worker. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. At least he knows what to expect-until the night things go too far.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ![]() Ponyboy has a few things he can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the Socs, whose idea of a good time is beating up greasers. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren’t so lucky. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. ![]() In Ponyboy’s world there are two types of people. Hintons novel of the same name, the 1960s set 'The Outsiders' told the tale of rival gangs in a Tulsa, Oklahoma high school (the upper-class 'Socs' and the poorer 'Greasers') whose. Today, with more than eight million copies sold, The Outsiders continues to resonate with its powerful portrait of the bonds and boundaries of friendship. Hinton’s novel was an immediate phenomenon. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Readįirst published in 1967, S. Celebrate the 50th anniversary (April, 2017) of a landmark coming-of-age American novel with a Penguin Classics edition featuring an introduction by Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister’s Keeper. ![]()
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