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Alex Charns

Award-Winning Author • Trial Attorney • Mental Health Advocate

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Alex Charns is a Durham, North Carolina trial attorney, award-winning author, publisher, and advocate for open government, accountability, and ending the stigma surrounding mental health.

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Alex Charns, PIHBA directory memberStories of Hope • Voices with Purpose
Books / Work15
Recognition7
SpeakingYes
PIHBA MemberJuly 2026

About the Author

A life, a voice,
a continuing mission.

For more than four decades he has practiced criminal-defense and police-misconduct law and pursued Freedom of Information Act records concerning the FBI and the Supreme Court. His legal writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Through Bull City Law Publishing, he writes legal thrillers set in Durham, nonfiction about the FBI and Supreme Court, hockey humor, cultural history, and stories touching mental health. He also coached youth hockey for 15 years.

“Gratefulness works.”
Genres & Fields
Cultural Heritage, Legal History, Thrillers, Mental Health
Continuing Mission
Open government, accountability, and treating mental health with the same seriousness and dignity as physical health.

Published Work

Books that carry the message forward.

Honors & Recognition

Recognition with meaning.

  • PIHBA Cultural Heritage category winner and Author of the Year finalist — July 2026
  • International Impact Book Awards for Queer Justice and Twenty Angels on Her Roof
  • Readers' Choice Five Star Gold recognition
  • San Francisco and New York Book Festival recognition

Speaking & Conversations

Topics and expertise.

  • World War II and the sin of antisemitism
  • Mental health
  • Freedom of Information Act and public accountability

Podcast: Experienced guest

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