Nancy Jo Sales

Nancy Jo Sales Biography

Nancy Jo Sales 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

She was born 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.

Career

Sales became a reporter for People magazine in the mid-1990s and then a contributing editor at New York magazine. She became a writer for Vanity Fair in 2000. Her 1999 New York article "The Baby Dinner" was optioned by Working Title Films for use as a film. Her 2007 Vanity Fair piece "The Golden Suicides" was also optioned for a film, with a script written by Bret Easton Ellis.

Personal life

She was married from 2004 to 2006 to radical Episcopal priest Frank Morales. She lives in New York City with her daughter.

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