[1] Joe Edley was born in 1947 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan and he attended Wayne State University, where he concentrated in mathematics and philosophy.
Edley has claimed that in preparing for his first national championship, the final key to his success was "controlling my breathing."
Edley was hired as an expert consultant for the National Scrabble Association and served as its Director of Clubs and Tournaments from 1988 to 2009.
He has published on Amazon.com: ANAGRAMMAR (2011), which is a puzzle book designed specifically to improve the average wordgame player's anagramming ability.
Many of these accusations were catalogued by expert Mike Baron in a 1996 multi-part post to the electronic mailing list Crossword-Games-Pro called "The Trial", and others have surfaced since.