S.E. Hinton
- She was 15 when she began writing The Outsiders.
- She wrote most of it when she was 16 and in her junior year of high school (the year she received a D in creative writing)
- The story was inspired by a real life situation-she was walking home from school one day and witnessed a "greaser" get jumped by a "nice" kid.He only got jumped because he was a greaser and that inspired her to write a story from his perspective.
- She received the contract from her publisher for the book on her graduation day.
Marshall, R. (2010). S e hinton biography, part 1 of 2[Web]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sDXwKmUg3U