Source: Good News Network
Happy 70th Birthday to the author who birthed the genre known as Young Adult Fiction, S.E. Hinton. She wrote her pivotal novel “The Outsiders” — about a gang of ‘greasers‘ in an Oklahoma high school — when she was sixteen years old. Since 1967, the book has sold 15 million copies, and still sells 500,000 annually as the book is required reading for teens in schools today.
As a student at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, where her experience of widespread disdain toward greaser culture inspired the book, she was given a D by her creative writing teacher. WATCH a 2017 interview with Suzie (who was advised to use her initials so critics would take her seriously) recorded for the book’s 50th anniversary… (1948)Francis Ford Coppola directed two films based on her books, The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, and co-wrote the screenplay with Hinton, who also performed in cameo appearances and worked as a location scout in Oklahoma, where all her novels were set. Coppola chose an amazing lineup of young actors, including Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, and Emilio Estevez. ( with scenes from the casting call)
She has also written two children’s books (in the 90s), and since 2004 has penned two adult fiction novels, including Some of Tim’s Stories and Taming the Star Runner.
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