Skip Hollandsworth

Skip Hollandsworth
Hollandsworth at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
Born	Walter Ned Hollandsworth (1957-11-09) November 9, 1957 (age 59) Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States
Occupation	Journalist, Screenwriter
Nationality	American
Period	1981–present

Walter Ned "Skip" Hollandsworth (born November 9, 1957) is an American author, journalist, screenwriter, and executive editor for Texas Monthly magazine. In 2010 he won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing from the American Society of Magazine Editors, for "Still Life", the story of John McClamrock. His true crime history, The Midnight Assassin, about a series of murders attributed to the Servant Girl Annihilator that took place in Austin, Texas, in 1885, was published in April 2016 by Henry Holt and Company.

Hollandsworth co-wrote the Richard Linklater movie Bernie, a low-budget, black comedy film based on his own 1998 article in Texas Monthly, titled "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas". Starring Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Shirley MacLaine, the film depicts the 1996 murder of an 82-year-old woman, Marjorie Nugent, in Carthage, Texas, by her 39-year-old companion,Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede.

Hollandsworth was born on November 9, 1957, in Kannapolis, North Carolina. He is the son of the late Reverend Walter Ned Hollandsworth, a Presbyterian minister, and Peggy Hollandsworth. His siblings are older sister Cathy, a doctor, and younger sister Laura, a minister.

Hollandsworth grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, where his father was the pastor at Meadowthorpe Presbyterian Church from December 1961, to December 1968. When he was eleven years old, Hollandsworth moved with his family to Texas, settling in Wichita Falls in December 1968, where his father served as pastor of Fain Memorial Presbyterian Church.