Charles Coon was born in 1931 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and studied at Harvard College before serving in the Korean War.

On return from the conflict he devoted himself to the bridge becoming the President of the Chess Club and Boston measuring itself continually in Rubber with high stakes cash.

He joined the National USA, won silver in the 1962 Bermuda Bowl and Rosenblum 1990.

On the National won six titles among which the Vanderbilt 1961 and the Wernher 1989.

He disappeared on January 18, 2003 in Staten Island.