‘A Natural History of Birds’

A plate from “A Natural History of Birds.” (Robert Abbott Sengstacke / Getty Images)

Feb. 4, 2015 10:06 AM PT

A look inside the 1765 Italian book “A Natural History of Birds,” a copy of which has sold for $191,000.

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.