Sometimes it takes a while. Author S.E. Hinton, who has teen novel classics like “The Outsiders” and “Rumble Fish” to her credit, is back in business with “Hawkes Harbor”, her first book in 16 years.

Sounds like she had an extended writer juice drought.

Limited output certainly isn’t an indictment. Harper Lee wrote only one book in her whole life, and she managed to make it a grand-slam homerun.