Skip Hollandsworth

Skip Hollandsworth is an award-winning journalist, a screenwriter, and a distinguished writer of Texas Monthly. He has won a National Magazine Award for feature writing, and his 2016 book, The Midnight Assassn, was a New York Times bestseller. He also cowrote the acclaimed screenplay Bernie with director Richard Linklater. The film was based on Hollandsworth’s 1998 Texas Monthly article “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas.” Linklater recently adapted Hollandsworth’s Texas Monthly article “Hit Man” for a 2024 feature with Glen Powell. Hollandsworth lives in Texas, where he and his wife have raised two children.