About me

E Dee Merriken Monnen’s first book DREAM SEASON demonstrated her expertise in nineteenth century baseball. The story centers around the City of Norwalk, California, when the town was in its infancy. Norwalk native and pitching phenom Walter Settle (born 1876) was known as “the speedball king” in Southern California baseball circles. He met his match when he became the first person to face-off against the great Walter Johnson. Johnson was the first pitcher to throw over 100 miles per hour.

E Dee’s knowledge of early baseball history landed her guest appearances on over a hundred radio stations and several TV stations, including a guest appearance on Fox & Friends in NYC. She has pitched her books at book fairs, county and state fairs, selling thousands of books.

Her second book SHAPING HEROES reveals a little-known fact: the initial drillers of Mt. Rushmore were baseball players. E Dee describes the harrowing experiences that these ballplayers endured to shape the mountain.

Her third book JUMPING OVER THE MOON (traditional publisher) is the story of extreme competitions between two businessmen and how their one-upmanship drove one of them to hire a team of Lakota baseball players to compete in the Los Angeles winter ball games.

E Dee has since hung up her baseball glove and has turned her attention to Christian fiction. She is a member of the Eastern Shore Writers’ Association, and although she graduated from Excelsior High and Cerritos College in Norwalk, California, she now enjoys life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.