Nancy Jo Sales

Nancy Jo Sales (born October 15, 1964) is a journalist and author who has written for Vanity Fair, New York and Harper's Bazaar. Her VF.com profile of reality star Kate Gosselin won a 2010 Mirror Award for "Best Profile, Digital Media." Her Vanity Fair story "The Quaid Conspiracy" won a 2011 Front Page Award for "Best Magazine Feature." Her book "The Bling Ring: How A Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World" (Harper Collins 2013) tells the true story behind the Sofia Coppola film The Bling Ring, which was based on Sales' 2010 Vanity Fair piece, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins."

Biography

Early life

Sales was born on October 15, 1964 in West Palm Beach, Florida, and in the early 1970s, her family moved to Miami. In 1980 the family relocated to New Hampshire, where she attended the Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated in 1982 as a Presidential Scholar. She attended Yale University, where she graduated summa cum laude from the B.A. in Literature program, winning the Willet's Prize for fiction. She graduated from Columbia University’s MFA in Writing program in 1991.