Shaaron and Ron Cosner Papers

Author and teacher Shaaron Cosner was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 10, 1940 to Roy F. and Louise Bigelow. She grew up moving and living on Air Force bases in Germany, the Philippines, Italy, and various states in the United States. She married Ron Cosner on March 3, 1962. She earned her B.A. in English from Arizona State University in 1965 and worked for the city of Tempe as an instructor for magazine article writing while working on a Master's degree in English, which she completed in 1978. It was also during this time she began freelance writing in 1974. She went on to work as an instructor at Arizona State University (1979-1982) and as a teacher at Corona del Sol (1982-circa 1990) while writing eight books.

Ron Cosner was born in 1940 in the Charleroi, Pennsylvania area. Frank Kush recruited him to play football for Arizona State University, where he met and married Shaaron Bigelow. He played football all four years of his undergraduate degree and graduated with his B.A. in Business in 1963. Cosner completed his Master's of Arts in Business Education in 1965 and worked at McClintock High School for eight years as Assistant Coach before being tapped to be Head Coach at Marcos de Niza. The teams he coached up to 1979 had 37-26-1 record and he led his teams to two consecutive championships in 1973 and 1974. By 1988, Ron had taught for twenty-five years in the Tempe Union High School District. He and Shaaron have two children, Bob and Vikki, as well as three grandchildren.