BE CLASSIC with Wuthering Heights introduced by bestselling author S.E. Hinton.
Emily Jane Bronte was born July 30, 1818, at Thornton in Yorkshire,
the fifth of six children of Patrick and Maria Bronte. Although
Emily did spend a few short times away from Haworth, it was her
primary residence and the rectory where she resided now serves as a
Bronte Museum. Emily's only close friends were her brother Branwell
and her sisters Charlotte and Anne. Emily died of tuberculosis on
December 19, 1848, also at the age of thirty, and never knew the
great success of her only novel Wuthering Heights, which was
published almost exactly a year before her death.
S.E. Hinton's career as an author began while she was still a
student at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Disturbed by
the clashes of the two gangs in her high school, the greasers and
the Socs, Hinton wrote The Outsiders, an honest, sometimes shocking
novel told from the point of view of a fourteen-year-old greaser
named Ponyboy Curtis.
The Outsiders was published during Hinton's freshman year at the
University of Tulsa and was an immediate sensation. Today, with
more than fifteen million copies sold, it is the bestselling young
adult novel of all time. The book was also made into a film in
1983, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and featuring budding young
stars Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, and Rob Lowe.
In 1988 Hinton was awarded the first annual Margaret A. Edwards
Award, given in honor of an author "whose book or books, over a
period of time, have been accepted by young people as an authentic
voice that continues to illuminate their experiences and emotions,
giving insight into their lives." S.E. Hinton still lives in
Oklahoma with her husband, where she enjoys writing, relaxing, and
riding horses.
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