Shepard Family
 The Shepard Family is a fictitious family in several of the novels of S.E. Hinton (see Continuity within S.E. Hinton Novels.) The family consists of a mother and stepfather (mentioned in That Was Then This Is Now) sons Tim and Curly (mentioned in The Outsiders) and daughter Angela (first mentioned in That Was Then This Is Now). The family is working class and lives in Tulsa Oklahoma.