Skip Hollandsworth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Skip Hollandsworth

American journalist

Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1957

Place of Birth: Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States

Profession: screenwriter, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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 (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.