Ponyboy. Greasers vs. Socs. For millions of fans around the world, these few words will instantly call up the world of The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton's classic novel about teen gangs and the troubled process of fitting in. Since publication of this first...

S. E. Hinton's young adult novels are among the best-selling books of all time and continue to be popular with adolescent readers a generation after she wrote them. Her books, especially The Outsiders (1967), continue to be assigned reading in...

"I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma [in 1950], where I have lived most of my life. There is nothing to do there, but it is a pleasant place to live if you don't want to do anything.... "I started reading about the same time everyone else did, and began to...

PORTSMOUTH -- PORTSMOUTH - Guy Snellings Hinton Sr., 91, died Feb. 6, 2006, at the Chesapeake Home on George Washington Highway. He was born in Gatesville, N.C., July 28, 1914, the youngest child of Charles Richard and Alberta Snellings Hinton. Mr. Hinton came...

Junious Hinton just couldn't find a babysitter that day 10 years ago, so he took son Jemal to watch an older brother fight in an Ohio boxing tournament. But the child wasn't a spectator for long. Jemal Hinton ended up entering the tournament-and...

Beyond its cluster of office towers, Tulsa is a city built close to the ground, a broad clash of neighborhoods you can tell apart by how the grass grows, bright and trim as a putting green in the richer sections, pale and shaggy in the...

When Andrea Peterson landed her first teaching job, she faced the daunting task of creating a music program with almost no money for supplies in a climate where music was seen as just providing a break for students and teachers.Her creativity in overcoming those challenges...

In the following essay, Malone argues that Hinton's novels are not representative of average American teenagers or as realistic as they have been alleged to be, and he asserts that the appeal of Hinton's works among teenage readers is due mainly to their action-packed narratives, simplistic plot structures, intense emotional tone, and well-defined principles. Malone also examines the societal trends which make Hinton's works popular among American youngsters, ponders books for young ad...

In the following essay, Lyons examines Hinton's works and career as well as the films based on The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, and Tex. Lyons briefly recounts the plots of the three novels, maintaining that Tex is superior, and includes commentary by Hinton.

In the following interview, Hinton discusses her approach to writing, the impact her career had upon her personal life as a teenager, and her recommendations for other young writers.

S.E. Hinton was a female writer who wrote books for the younger generation. In her book "Tex" she is not afraid of leaving out any themes that would be involved in a persons everyday life like drugs, sex, and/or abuse.

Essay is about the author S.E. Hinton and her tribute to the world of literature as well as her life.