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PEN’s First Editions / Second Thoughts

Writer and musician Patti Smith has annotated a copy of her memoir "Just Kids" to benefit PEN.

Writer and musician Patti Smith has annotated a copy of her memoir “Just Kids” to benefit PEN.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

By Carolyn Kellogg
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For an auction to benefit PEN, leading authors and artists annotated first editions of their own work.

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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