Vicki Myron

Vicki is the author and narrator of this book. She was the director at the Spencer Public Library in 1988 when she and another librarian found a tiny kitten in the book depository. By that time, she had been with the library for several years but had only been in the leadership role for a few months. Vicki immediately felt that Dewey would be the perfect cat to live in the library but she sought official permission before making it a formal arrangement.

Vicki was born and raised in rural Iowa, not far from Spencer. Most young girls of that time married young and had a family, and Vicki was no exception, though she lived on her own for a time after high school. She had a daughter she named Jodi but had complications during the pregnancy that left her unable to have more children and with...