That Was Then, This is Now was published in 1971. She continued to write her two pages a day until she finally felt it was finished in the summer of 1970, she got married a few months later. Because she read a lot of great literature and wanted to better herself, she made sure that she wrote each sentence exactly right.
That Was Then, This Is Now is known to be a much more well thought out book than The Outsiders. This eventually led to That Was Then, This Is Now. He made her write two pages a day if she wanted to go anywhere.
Her boyfriend (and now, her husband), who had gotten sick of her being depressed all the time, eventually broke this block. This kind of pressure and publicity resulted in a three year long writer's block. Hinton was becoming known as "The Voice of the Youth" among other titles. Once published, The Outsiders gave her a lot of publicity and fame, and also a lot of pressure. Although never a member of either group, she was able to represent both sides realistically in her story. The characters she wrote about in The Outsiders are composites of the greasers and socs she knew, with some of herself mixed in. Hinton based her writing on her experiences with “greasers” and “socs” (pronounced soshes- short for the socially elite) in Tulsa. The concern was that boys might not want to read a book about gang life if they knew it was written by a girl. It gave young people, used to stories of carefree innocents busy readying themselves for the big prom date, a dose of reality. For in this novel, Hinton portrayed a world realistic for many teenagers, filled with peer pressure, gang violence, social status and parental abuse. This book, The Outsiders, created a revolution in the writing of young adult novels upon its publication in 1967. It was during this same year that she finished a realistic book of fiction for teenagers. Strangely enough, it never taught me spelling.”Īccording to Hinton, it was her inability to spell that contributed to a D grade in Creative Writing when she was a junior at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa. Reading taught me sentence structure, paragraphing, how to build a chapter. I read everything, including Comet cans and coffee labels.
The major influence on my writing has been my reading. “I started reading about the same time everyone else did, and began to write a short time later. She has always enjoyed reading but wasn't satisfied with the literature that was being written for young adults, which influenced her to write novels like The Outsiders. Susan Eloise Hinton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (July 22, 1948). Her novels changed the way people look at young adult literature. Her books have been taught in some schools, and banned from others. Hinton, was and still is, one of the most popular and best known writers of young adult fiction.
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