Nancy Jo Sales

Nancy Jo Sales graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1986. She has written for several publications including Vanity Fair, New York, and Harper's Bazaar. She is known for her reporting on youth culture and crime and for her profiles of pop-culture icons. She won a 2011 Front Page Award for Best Magazine Feature and a 2010 Mirror Award for Best Profile, Digital Media. She is the author of The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped off Hollywood and Shocked the World and American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers. The Sofia Coppola film The Bling Ring was based on Sales's 2010 Vanity Fair piece The Suspects Wore Louboutins.