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Walter Ned "Skip" Hollandsworth (born November 9, 1957) is an American 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. Hollandsworth co-wrote the Richard Linklater movie ''Bernie'', 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,〔("Trial begins for man accused in death" ) ''Amarillo Globe-News'', October 26, 1998〕 Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede. ==Early life== Hollandsworth was born on November 9, 1957, in Kannapolis, North Carolina.〔http://jackpepper.tripod.com/pepper/wga18.html〕 He is the son of the late〔(''Times Record News'' ) September 1, 2011〕 Reverend Walter Ned Hollandsworth,〔(Presbyterian College ''Pac Sac'' Yearbook 1953 )〕 a Presbyterian minister,〔("Preacher's Kids" ) ''Texas Monthly'', November 1985〕 and Peggy Hollandsworth.〔(''Times Record News'' ) September 1, 2011〕 His siblings are older sister Cathy, a doctor, and younger sister Laura, a minister.〔("Preacher's Kids" ) ''Texas Monthly'', November 1985〕 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,〔(History of Meadowthorpe Presbyterian Church )〕 where his father served as pastor of Fain Memorial Presbyterian Church.〔("Preacher's Kids" ) ''Texas Monthly'', November 1985〕 Hollandsworth’s father, uncles and grandfather graduated from the Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia.〔("Music to My Ears" ) ''Texas Monthly'', July 1985〕 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.”〔("Preacher's Kids" ) ''Texas Monthly'', November 1985〕 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."〔("Patient Observation" )''Texas Monthly'', June 2010〕 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."〔(Ibid. )〕 Hollandsworth wrote in ''Texas Monthly'' that he eventually realized it was those trips to the state hospital that ultimately led him into journalism: :''Years later, while I was giving a speech to a college class, I was asked why I went into journalism. I suddenly blurted out, “I think it all started when I went out to the state hospital." Although this had never occurred to me before, it instantly seemed right. I realized that what I loved about my visits was that I got the chance to study people who went right up to the line of normal behavior—and then, inexplicably, stepped over it. I was captivated by the patients and tried to fathom what it felt like to be swept away by madness.''〔(Ibid. )〕'' : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skip Hollandsworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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