Parents are Emma Louise Gray Red Corn, a full blood Osage, an accomplished maker of Osage ribbon work, deceased, and Harold A. Red Corn, one-half Osage, deceased.

Charles has a Master of Education Degree from Penn State. He graduated from Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts with a Bachelor Degree in Psychology and he attended Indian Camp School in Pawhuska, and Pawhuska High School.

Honorably discharged from United States Army.

He worked several years in the fields of Indian Education and Economic Development, and has collected lost and stolen money for Individual Indian oil and gas owners. Charles also developed innovative learning programs for Indian education.

Since 1998 Charles has been writing. Published first novel, “A Pipe for February.” was named National Public Radio’s Native American Calling, Book of the Month. He was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship to research next book at the Newberry Library in Chicago. In the fall term of 2004 Charles was named Dartmouth College’s first Tribal Scholar, and spent the fall term on campus in Hanover, New Hampshire writing and interacting with faculty and students.