Junius Edwards was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, He was educated at the University of Oslo in Norway The short story "Liars Don’t Qualify" has been anthologized in many books devoted to the writing of contemporary black authors. It won first prize in the Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest. In 1959 Edwards won a Eugene F. Saxton Fellowship for Creative Writing. His short story "Mother Dear and Daddy," can be found in the anthology The Angry Black.