| S.E. Hinton Contributor(s): Abrams, Dennis (Author), Zimmer, Kyle (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1604130881 ISBN-13: 9781604130881 Publisher: Chelsea House Publications OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Library Binding - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: In 1965, Susan Eloise Hinton sat down at her late father's old Underwood typewriter and started work on a novel that would fully and accurately describe the teenage world she knew: the story of Pony Boy, his brothers, and their friends, their constant struggle to belong, and the conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. Two years later, the completed novel, The Outsiders, was published. Hinton made publishing history, single-handedly creating a new genre of fiction--the young adult novel. S.E. Hinton tells the story of the teenager who was the author of such young adult classics as That Was Then, This Is Now and Rumble Fish. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Literary |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2008035046 |
| Series: Who Wrote That? |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.6" W x 9.3" (0.85 lbs) 119 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When teenager Susan Eloise Hinton sat down at her father's typewriter in 1965 and wrote 'The Outsiders', she could little have realised that she was creating a new genre of fiction - the young adult novel. This title tells the story of S.E. Hinton and her further titles such as 'That Was Then', 'This Is Now'and 'Rumble Fish'. |