Historian, researcher, writer, Constance Altshuler was born in Chicago, Illinois. She received her college education at the University of Chicago as well as receiving a degree from the University of Michigan. Connie worked as a reporter on the Chicago Sun-Times as well as writing fiction.

Soon after World War II, Connie and her physician husband moved to Tucson, Arizona, where Dr. Altshuler had been appointed as Chief of Professional Services at the Veterans Administration Hospital. It was not long after their arrival in Arizona that Connie developed a love for, and an interest in, the history of her adopted state. She turned her investigative and inquisitive mind to researching and writing that history.

Connie Altshuler is the author of Starting with Defiance: Nineteenth Century Arizona Military Posts, Latest from Arizona! - The Hesperian Letters, 1859-1861, and Chains of Command: Arizona and the Army, 1856-1875. She has also written numerous articles for historical journals. Constance Wynn Alshuler has added a great deal of knowledge to the awareness and understanding of Arizona's past.