Career
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 graduated from Columbia University’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing program in 1991.
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.
