Skip Hollandsworth

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. Provided by Wikipedia