S.E. Hinton
S.E.
Hinton is the pen name of Susan Eloise Hinton, an American author best known for *The Outsiders* (1967), a novel about teenage gang conflict she wrote while still in high school.
She used initials to obscure her gender, as publishers doubted male readers would accept a book by a woman.
Her work helped establish young adult fiction as a genre.
- greasersMachine lubricators or rebels
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- rumbleLow rolling sound
- gangOrganized criminal group
- TulsaNortheastern Oklahoma metropolis
1960s · juvenile · delinquent · young adult · switchblade · leather · pomade · teenage · teen angst · rebel · Curtis · Dally · Johnny · golden · staying · sunsets · youth · brotherhood
- Youth Literatureyoung adult novels, coming-of-age stories, bildungsroman, teenage protagonists, Hardy Boys
- Young AuthorsAnne Frank, Mary Shelley
literary tone and content for youth
S.E. HintonLouisa May Alcott
Horatio Alger · Norman Rockwell · after-school special · Beverly Cleary · Laura Ingalls Wilder