Nancy Jo Sales

Nancy Jo Sales is a journalist and author who has written for Vanity Fair, New York, and Harpers 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 FameObsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World 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.

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 Willets Prize for fiction. She graduated from Columbia Universitys MFA in Writing program in 1991.

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