She married her husband while in college, and had two children a few years after graduating from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Baker was born in Buffalo, New York and spent most of the next eighteen years in the Town of Tonawanda with her older brother and her parents. The Frog Princess inspired the Disney's Princess and the Frog!Į. Baker made her international debut in 2002 with The Frog Princess, which was a Texas Lone Star Reading List Book, A Book Sense Children's Pick, a Florida's Sunshine State Readers List pick & a 2006 Sasquatch Book Award nominee. Baker be sure to follow her on Facebook.E.D. (Just keep in mind it may take a while before she responds, because she is working on a new book for you to enjoy!) For updates, announcements on upcoming books and daily posts by E.D. Baker regarding her books, you can e-mail her at and she will try very hard to reply to your e-mails. If you have a question or a comment for E.

Baker lives on a small farm in Maryland where she and her family breed Appaloosa horses. has written 25 books to date and has no plans to quite writing anytime soon.Ĭurrently E.

Her first book, The Frog Princess, was published in 2002. decided that it was time to believe in herself and devoted her time to writing. Having gained a new perspective on what is important in life, E.D.

and her daughters moved north to be closer to her parents. Her son had already graduated from college when E.D. After graduating, she taught fifth grade until her parents’ health began to fail. She continued taking writing classes after the birth of her second daughter, but when she and her husband divorced, she went back to school and entered the SIMAT (School Immersion Masters in the Art of Teaching) program at Johns Hopkins University. worked part time in her husband’s business and took writing classes at the local community college. When her son was four, the family moved to the state of Maryland.

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