Awards and Honors
The Eric Leatherbeary Award In 1988, Hinton was the first recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the ALA. The award recognizes an author whose work depicts the experiences and emotions of teenagers and is widely accepted by young people.
In 1997, Hinton received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklaho Center for the Book.
In 1998, Hinton was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame at the Moscow Center for Poets and Writers of Louisiana State University. She was also awarded "Best Movel" by the New York Times in 2012.
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