They were married in 1970, and That Was Then, This is Now was published in 1971. If she failed to produce two pages during the day, they wouldn't go out that night. Hinton was suffering from writer's block, and he forced her to write two pages a day. Hinton did meet her future husband, David Inhofe, in a freshman biology class, and it was due to him that she finished her second book, That Was Then, This is Now. She found herself teaching all day and then worrying about the kids all night. However, during her student teaching, she decided that she did not have the physical stamina to be a teacher.

The success of The Outsiders enabled Hinton to attend the University of Tulsa where she earned a degree in education in 1970. Her mother's reaction to the novel was shock she said, 'Susie, where did you pick up all of this?' Although she also had friends who were Socs, she definitely did not consider herself a part of that group. She has stated that her biggest compliment was that her greaser friends liked the book.

Hinton was not a member of a gang when she wrote The Outsiders, but she was a friend to many greasers.

The publisher - believing that the book would have more credibility if people assumed that a male had written it - advised her to use her initials, S. She began writing the first draft of the novel when she was 15, and writing and rewriting took a year and a half before she was happy with the final copy. The Outsiders was published in 1967, when Hinton was only 17 years old and attending Will Rogers High School.

'Tulsa Teenager Writes Novel' Lawton, OK April 14 1967.Susan Eloise Hinton was born in 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Hinton, whose works include 'The Outsiders,' 'Rumble Fish' and 'Tex.' '

From 'Earth Shoes Reach End of Road Tulsa Shoe Salesman Holds Last of Ugly '70s Inventory' Published: Decem12:00 AM CDT Updated: Decem12:00 AM CDT 'Despite their appearance, Earth Shoes helped Inhofe during his college-days courtship of his wife, fiction writer S.E.

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The book was also made into a film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and featuring such future stars as Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, and Tom Cruise. The Outsiders was published during Hinton's freshman year at the University of Tulsa, and was an immediate sensation.Today, with more than eight million copies in print, the book is the best-selling young adult novel of all time, and one of the most hauntingly powerful views into the thoughts and feelings of teenagers.

In 1988 she received the inaugural Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her cumulative contribution in writing for teens. Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during high school.

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