Skip Hollandsworth Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Skip Hollandsworth is an American journalist and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with Texas Monthly magazine, where he has been a contributing editor since 1989. He has written numerous articles for the magazine, including the story that was the basis for the movie Bernie, which he co-wrote with Richard Linklater. Hollandsworth was born on November 9, 1957 in Kannapolis, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979 with a degree in journalism. Hollandsworth has written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, GQ, and The Atlantic. He has also written several books, including The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer (2016). Hollandsworth has won numerous awards for his writing, including the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2000 and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best Magazine Article in 2001. As of 2021, Skip Hollandsworth's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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The Midnight Assassin, which was named a New York Times bestseller in May 2016, is a history of Austin, Texas in the year 1885 when a brutal but brilliant serial killer went on a rampage, ritualistically slaughtering seven women over the course of twelve months, and setting off a citywide panic. Three years later, when a man nicknamed Jack the Ripper carried out a similar series of killings in the Whitechapel district of London, England, Scotland Yard detectives speculated that he was the Austin killer who had traveled overseas to continue to carry out his "diabolical work." The New York Times described The Midnight Assassin as "true crime of high quality," "smart and restrained" and "chilling." In its review, the Wall Street Journal called the book a "thoroughly researched, excitingly written history" and an "absorbing work."

Regarding the writing of Bernie, Hollandsworth told Culture Map Houston: "When I realized I was going to get my name on this movie – when I realized, "Hey, I'm a screenwriter!" – I began writing these scenes that I thought were fantastic. My creative side was coming out. But whenever I did that, Rick would ask – in that gentle, loving way of his – "Did that really happen?" And when I said it didn't, he'd say, "Hell, no."

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 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."

After reading Hollandsworth's Texas Monthly article in January 1998, director Richard Linklater contacted Hollandsworth with an interest in adapting the article as a film and also to hire Hollandsworth to co-write the screenplay. Bernie made its world premiere on June 16, 2011, at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival. The low-budget, independent film opened at theaters in April 2012, and has since earned a score of 92% on the user review aggregator and a 7.6 out of 10 on the average rating by critics compiler at Rotten Tomatoes. Bernie grossed a modest $9,156,000.

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 madmen. "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:

A 2010 press release by North Lake College stated that Hollandsworth "regularly works as a ghost writer, producing books and articles for celebrities and other newsmakers. Jan Miller, who, in 1998, represented some of Hollandsworth's ghostwriting projects, told the Dallas Business Journal that she "retains ghostwriters like Skip Hollandsworth of Texas Monthly to assist nervous first-timers."

According to Suzanne Bruring, who worked for Hollandsworth as a transcriptionist from 1998 to 2003, Hollandsworth provided "verbiage as (ghost) author for a Dr. Phil book".

Hollandsworth's articles in Texas Monthly have launched three made-for-television movies, and one proposed film: The CBS telepics The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery and Suburban Madness; the 1997 NBC telepic Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder (for distribution outside the United States, the DVD was titled Swearing Allegiance); and The Goree Girls, a proposed movie set in the 1940s about several women in a Texas prison who form a country-western band.

Hollandsworth married Shannon (née Peterson) in June 1995, in Dallas.

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."

After graduating from Texas Christian University, Hollandsworth worked as a reporter and columnist for newspapers in Dallas. In 1981 he worked as a sports reporter for the Dallas Times Herald. He joined Texas Monthly magazine in 1989. He also has worked as a television producer and documentary filmmaker.

Hollandsworth graduated from Texas Christian University in 1979, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

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.

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 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.