S.E. Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton) was born on July 20,1950. She is 62 years old, and lives in Oklahoma with her husband call Dave and she has a son also call Nick. She went to Will Rogers High School and attended Tulsa University. The first book she wrote was “ The Outsiders” in 1965 when she was only 16 years old and it was published in her first year of university. In 1971, Hinton wrote second book named “ That was then, this is now”

Hinton met her future husband, David Inhofe, in a freshman biology class, and it was because of him that she finished her second book “That Was Then, This is Now”. Hinton was suffering from writer's block, and he forced her to write two pages a day. If she didn’t finish during the day, they wouldn't go out that night. They were married in 1970, and That Was Then, This is Now was published in 1971. …show more content…
This book talking about two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs, who are opposite of each others because of the social class. The book told in first person narrative by the character Ponyboy Curtis and strongly shows the gap between rich and poor in 1970s. The Socs stranded in rich and the Greasers represented poor classes. The arrogant, self-satisfied Socs flaunt their wealth and drive around in fancy cars, while the Greasers wear simple t-shirts and live on the bad side of town. Their socioeconomic differences fuel the novel's central conflict.Both the Greasers and the Socs prize loyalty. Johnny shows the friendship to Ponyboy by killing Bob when the Socs attack in the