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Why did Susan Eloise Hinton decide to sign her books as S.E. Hinton?

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After the success of The Outsiders, Hinton chose to continue writing and publishing using her initials, because she did not want to lose what she had made famous, and to allow her to keep her private and public lives separate.

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Many people would not read the outsiders if they knew a woman wrote it. Most would assume the author was a man if she signed with S.E. Hinton.

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