Virginia Cleaver Bacon

Virginia Cleaver Bacon (February 1, 1883 – April 11, 1930) was the state librarian for Oregon.

Early life and education Bacon was born on February 1, 1883,

She graduated from Portland High School and obtained an A. B. at University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. In 1928 she published Good English. Good English was a booklet for the Reading with a Purpose series of the American Library Association. Specialists were called on to write the 45 booklets in the series and of that number only two were written by women and only four by librarians.

She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Association of University Women, the Professional Women's League, the American Library Association, and the American Association for Adult Education.

She died on April 11, 1930, in Portland; she had been ill for some time prior, and died after her condition worsened.