Vicki Myron

Vicki Myron
Vicki Myron in 2009
Born	1947 (age 69–70) Spencer, Iowa, US
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Genre	Biography
Children	Jodi Myron
Website
deweyreadmorebooks.com

Vicki Myron (born 1947; Spencer, Iowa) is an American author and librarian. Director of the Spencer Public Library for more than 20 years, Myron is best known for her book Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, written with Bret Witter. It sold more than one million copies internationally and was on bestseller lists for more than six months. It is about a cat which she found and cared for at the library, and his engaging effects on the townspeople. The library cat's story became internationally known before his death.

The book's great success led to a publishing phenomenon, with Myron and Witter also writing two related children's books, and with publication of audio books. Their sequel, Dewey's Nine Lives, was published in 2010 as was a second children's picture book about the cat. A proposed film adaptation has not been completed; as of May 2012 the script had not been approved and the first option was due to expire in June 2012.

Vicki Myron was born in Spencer, Iowa and grew up on a farm near Moneta, fifteen miles from the town of Spencer. Myron attended local schools and graduated from high school in Hartley. She earned her bachelor's degree at Minnesota State University, Mankato, then called Mankato State University in Minnesota. There she also married and had a daughter. Later she moved to Emporia, Kansas, where she completed a master's degree at Emporia State University.

Myron had health problems to deal with while doing graduate study. She and her husband divorced because of his alcoholism (as she discussed in her 2008 book). She raised their daughter as a single mother.

Myron returned to Spencer and started working in its public library. She served as the head librarian of the Spencer library for 25 years, from the age of 24 until she retired. She lives in Spencer, Iowa.

In 1988 Myron found an 8-week-old kitten left in the library drop box on a bitterly cold night. She took care of him, naming him Dewey. (His full name was Dewey Readmore Books.) The staff made him the library cat. He lived until 2006, making friends with many library patrons and becoming internationally famous after his story was reported in various outlets. He was so popular that he was featured on postcards for sale by Friends of the Library, and raised funds of some $4000 by May 2005. His obituary was carried by 250 newspapers, including the New York Times.