| Birth Day | July 22, 1948 |
| Birth Place | Tulsa, OK |
| Age | 75 YEARS OLD |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
S.E. Hinton, a renowned Young Adult Author hailing from Oklahoma, has reached great financial success throughout her career. As of 2024, her net worth is estimated to be an impressive $10 million. Hinton's remarkable talent for storytelling and her ability to connect with young readers has earned her widespread recognition and popularity in the literary world. Her groundbreaking novel, "The Outsiders," written when she was just a teenager herself, catapulted her to fame and has since become a beloved classic. Hinton's continued success and enduring influence in the Young Adult genre have undoubtedly contributed to her significant net worth.
American author of young adult fiction who penned the classic novel The Outsiders when she was only sixteen years old. She was the 1988 recipient of the American Library Association's Margaret Edwards Award.
Her novel, The Outsiders, was inspired by her observations of rival gangs at her Oklahoma high school. The novel was published when she was a first year student at the University of Tulsa.
She received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.
Her real name is Susan Eloise Hinton. She married Engineer David Inhofe in 1970; together, they had a son named Nicolas.
Her novels were the inspiration for two Francis Ford Coppola films, The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, both released in 1983.
