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Paul Edwards and his wife Sarah have been called by publications such as the Christian Science Monitor as the "gurus of the work-at-home movement." They are the authors of the best-selling book Working From Home: Everything You Need To Know To Live and Work Under the Same Roof, which Dennis Wholey of Late Night America called the book "The Bible of the Business" Fifteen other books that have sold over a million and a half copies followed.

Paul began his career as a practicing attorney in Kansas City, Missouri from 1965 through 1968. In 1968, he became Coordinator of Intergovernmental Relations for Jackson County, Missouri, the principal county in which Kansas City is located. During his tenure, he coordinated the successful effort of Kansas City to become a federal regional headquarters city, reversing a decision President Nixon made in his third month in office to remove Kansas City's federal offices to Denver.

In 1969, he was selected to attend the second Program for Urban Executives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then entered the urban affairs field, becoming President and Chief Executive Officer of the Environmental Research and Development Foundation, an organization developed from a grant to the Menninger Foundation that pioneered in the field of environmental psychology. During his tenure, ERDF had approximately twenty professional and support personnel.

In 1974, he established the consulting firm of Public Affairs Assistance, which specialized in public issue communications with a scope of activities that included campaign management, training, media production and publishing. Clients included city, county, and legislative district campaigns as well as assignments from government agencies, civic and professional associations. He made a specialty of working with underdogs and had a winning record.

Edwards has lectured at colleges and universities, including the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Rockhurst College. He has taught extension courses with his wife at the University of Southern California and UCLA.

Educationally, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 1962 and a Juris Doctor awarded "with distinction" in 1965 from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He was recognized as "Outstanding Young Man of Kansas City," "Outstanding Young Man of Missouri" in 1972, and the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Region IX "Small Business Journalist of the Year" in 2006 and was a delegate to the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business.