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S.E. Hinton
* Born on July 22, 1948 in Tulsa, Oklahoma
*Wanted to be a cattle rancher when she was young
*Went to Will Rogers High School
*Failed English in high school
*Was trained to be a teacher at University of Tulsa
*
The Outsiders
was based of two gangs at her high school
*Wrote first book,
The Outsiders,
in 1967
*Got "The Voice of the Youth" award after wrote
The Outsiders
*Married to David Inhofe in 1970
*Wrote
That Was Then, This Is Now
in 1971
*Wrote
Rumble Fish
in 1975
*Wrote
Tex
in 1979
*First movie,
The Outsiders,
was in March 1983
*First child, boy, named Nick, in August 1983
*
That Was Then, This Is Now
movie came out in 1985
*Won the Margaret Edwards Award in 1988, first award
*Won the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature in 1991
*Wrote
Hawkes Harbor
in 2004
*Wrote
Some of Tims' Stories
in 2006
*S.E. Hinton is still living today
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