That was Then, This is Now

About the author:
Her name is S.E.Hinton,and she was a published writer already when she was 17 years old.She was born in Tulsa,Oklahoma.She has writed books like:”The Outsiders”,”That Was Then,This is Now”,”Rumble fish”,”After taming the star”,”Big David” and ”The puppy sisters”.After writing ”The Outsiders” she got tipsed to publish under the name S.E.Hinton,because the narrator in the book was a boy and people would find it strange that a woman wrote a such ”macho” story as ”The outsiders”.She wrote her second book ”That was Then,This is Now” when she was in college at University of Tulsa,studying to be a teacher but she hadn`t enough stamina or nerve to teach.She couldn`t stop thinking of the problems some of the pupils have.”Rumble fish”,her third book,was published in 1975.She got inspired of a picture with a boy on a motorcycle she had seen.After writing her fourth book,”Taming the star runner,she took a seven-year break.She had enough with her son Nick.She couldn`t write a thing.When Hinton is not writing she is riding.She is also taking courses at the university.