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Walter Ned "Skip" Hollandsworth is an American writer, 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 (2011), 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 in Kannapolis, North Carolina.[unreliable source?] 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.
Hollandsworth's father, uncles and grandfather graduated from the Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. His family assumed that he, too, would become a Presbyterian minister, but Hollandsworth, a self-described "scamp," wrote in Texas Monthly back in 1985, that, "As minister's children, we could not help but be fascinated yet repelled by church ways."
From an early age, Hollandsworth became equally fascinated with North Texas State Hospital, an in-patient mental health facility owned by the state of Texas, located in Wichita Falls, which he described as "a small, starkly normal city of about 100,000 people." In the June 2010 issue of Texas Monthly, Hollandsworth wrote about riding past the state hospital in the back of a pickup truck with his friends on Friday nights, looking for patients. "For us, the state hospital, which nearly everyone referred to as LSU, or Lakeside University, because it was located across from Lake Wichita, was our real-life haunted house. The fact that two thousand adults were being treated for 'insanity' out in those buildings, just past the city limits sign, simply tortured our imaginations." As he became a teenager, he kept returning to the hospital, volunteering in different departments, even playing his cello for some of the patients, drawn "for reasons I couldn't then explain" to what he described as this "community of odd souls who had never been able to make it on the outside." Hollandsworth wrote in Texas Monthly that he eventually realized it was those trips to the state hospital that ultimately led him into journalism:
Hollandsworth graduated from Texas Christian University in 1979, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
Hollandsworth began his career as the sports reporter for the Texas Christian University school newspaper, The Daily Skiff, covering the football team. In a September 2011 interview, Hollandsworth commented that he "found the cheerleaders far more interesting than the games themselves ..." During one game, Hollandsworth said, "a cheerleader ran onto the field during a timeout to do a cheer, and I watched, barely able to breathe, as the last of the late afternoon sun caught her blonde hair and smiling face, illuminating her like perfectly placed museum lights illuminate a painting."
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Walter Ned "Skip" Hollandsworth is an American writer, 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 (2011), 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 in Kannapolis, North Carolina.[unreliable source?] 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.
Hollandsworth's father, uncles and grandfather graduated from the Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. His family assumed that he, too, would become a Presbyterian minister, but Hollandsworth, a self-described "scamp," wrote in Texas Monthly back in 1985, that, "As minister's children, we could not help but be fascinated yet repelled by church ways."
From an early age, Hollandsworth became equally fascinated with North Texas State Hospital, an in-patient mental health facility owned by the state of Texas, located in Wichita Falls, which he described as "a small, starkly normal city of about 100,000 people." In the June 2010 issue of Texas Monthly, Hollandsworth wrote about riding past the state hospital in the back of a pickup truck with his friends on Friday nights, looking for patients. "For us, the state hospital, which nearly everyone referred to as LSU, or Lakeside University, because it was located across from Lake Wichita, was our real-life haunted house. The fact that two thousand adults were being treated for 'insanity' out in those buildings, just past the city limits sign, simply tortured our imaginations." As he became a teenager, he kept returning to the hospital, volunteering in different departments, even playing his cello for some of the patients, drawn "for reasons I couldn't then explain" to what he described as this "community of odd souls who had never been able to make it on the outside." Hollandsworth wrote in Texas Monthly that he eventually realized it was those trips to the state hospital that ultimately led him into journalism:
Hollandsworth graduated from Texas Christian University in 1979, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
Hollandsworth began his career as the sports reporter for the Texas Christian University school newspaper, The Daily Skiff, covering the football team. In a September 2011 interview, Hollandsworth commented that he "found the cheerleaders far more interesting than the games themselves ..." During one game, Hollandsworth said, "a cheerleader ran onto the field during a timeout to do a cheer, and I watched, barely able to breathe, as the last of the late afternoon sun caught her blonde hair and smiling face, illuminating her like perfectly placed museum lights illuminate a painting."
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