Junius Edwards Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Edwards died on March 22, 2008, in Manhattan, New York City.

During the 1960s, he worked in Manhattan, New York City as a copywriter for advertising agencies and went on to establish his own agency: Junius Edwards Inc., one of the first black owned agencies to exist in the city. His work has been published in many anthologies of African-American writing and Civil Rights literature, including Calling the Wind (ed. Clarence Major) and Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement (ed. Margaret Earley Whitt), among others.

In 1958, Edwards won the first prize in the Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest for his piece “Liars Don’t Qualify,” which tells the story of Will Harris, a fictional character who, like Edwards himself, is an Army veteran. Harris tries to register to vote in the South, but, after being given a hard time by the white voter registrants, is ultimately disqualified from registering.

Junius V. Edwards (April 20, 1929 – March 22, 2008) was an African-American fiction writer of the 1950s and 1960s whose work primarily focused on the civil rights movement and on racial issues faced by African Americans in the military and in the American South.

Edwards was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, on April 20, 1929. At the age of 18, he joined the United States Army, serving for nine years in Korea and in Japan, and working for the Judge Advocate General Corps and the Army Counter Intelligence Corps.