Susan Eloise Hinton Research Paper

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Susan Eloise Hinton was born on July 1948 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a child Susan was very passionate about reading and according to notablebiographies.com she has a said that she read “because their was nothing else to do growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.” She was very introverted as a child. As she grew older her love for literature grew and grew,when she was a Junior in high school her father was diagnosed with cancer. She often wrote to get away from thinking about it. Soon after, she had a friend tell her about when he was beaten up by some “nice” kids while walking home from school. They had nice cars and wore nice clothes were just beating him up because he was a greaser. Susan was very upset about this happening and just started writing

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