My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

She plays the nurse in room for The Outsiders. Edwards Award from the American Library Association citing her first four YA novels.

Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma especially The Outsiders which S. E. Hinton wrote during high school. Edwards Award in 1988.