The mystery of S.E. Hinton begins with her genderless name ... He goes to Los Angeles, makes “a ton of money” and “returns to his hometown to see his family,” she said.

Beyond writing about what she’d seen that afternoon, Suzie tried to capture the simmering adolescent rage and frustration that coursed through her hometown ... by S.E. Hinton—Suzie’s ...

Image S.E. Hinton revisits her high school ... my father was dying of a brain tumor,” she recounted, back in her hometown library. “It was very slow. It was very painful.

And it wasn’t just Hinton’s work that inspired writers, but her background. “The Outsiders is the book that made me want to be a writer,” Greene continues. “When I found out S.E. Hinton ...