Nancy Jo Sales
Nancy Jo Sales (born October 15, 1964) is a "New York Times" bestselling author and journalist at "Vanity Fair", "New York" magazine, and "Harper's Bazaar", among others. In 2011 she wrote an article called "The Suspects Wore Louboutins" in "Vanity Fair" that was made into "The Bling Ring". Early life and education. Sales was born on October 15, 1964, in West Palm Beach, Florida. In the early 1970s, her family moved to Miami, and in 1980 to New Hampshire, where she attended the Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated in 1982 as a Presidential Scholar. In 1986  she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University with a B.A. in Literature, where she also won the Willet's Prize for fiction writing. She earned an MFA from Columbia University in 1991. Career. Sales worked as a reporter for "People" magazine in 1994. She was hired as a contributing editor at "New York" magazine and in 1999 as a contributing editor at "Harper's Bazaar". She became a writer for "Vanity Fair" in 2000. At "Vanity Fair", she wrote a profile of reality television star Kate Gosselin that won a 2010 Mirror Award for best  profile in digital media. A 2011 "Vanity Fair" article called "The Quaid Conspiracy" won a Front Page Award for Best Magazine Feature. Her 2013 book "The Bling Ring: How A Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World" recounts the true story behind the Sofia Coppola film "The Bling Ring", which was based on a 2010 "Vanity Fair" piece by Sales, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins". In 2016 she published "American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers". Sales is also a filmmaker and producer. In 2018 her documentary film "", aired on HBO. Her 1999  New York article "The Baby Dinner" was optioned by Working Title Films for use as a film, and her 2007 "Vanity Fair" piece about the double suicide of artist-filmmakers Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan was also optioned for a film, with a script written by Bret Easton Ellis but did not come to fruition. Personal life. She was married from 2004 to 2006 to Episcopal priest Frank Morales. She lives in New York City with her daughter, Zazie May Sales, who was born in 2000. Growing up, she was penpals with Woody Allen, and her recounting of it, "Woody  and Me", was included in 2010's "New York Stories: Landmark Writing From Four Decades of New York Magazine".