
The brother of a young cowboy lost in a 2017 Panhandle fire helped his team to a stunning victory.
Before joining the Texas Monthly staff, in 1989, executive editor Skip Hollandsworth worked as a reporter and columnist in Dallas and as a television producer and documentary filmmaker. During his tenure with the magazine, he has received several journalism awards, including a National Headliners Award, the national John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism, the City and Regional Magazine gold award for feature writing, and the Texas Institute of Letters O. Henry Award for magazine writing.
He has been a finalist four times for a National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, and in 2010 he won the National Magazine Award in feature writing for “Still Life,” his story about a young man who, after suffering a crippling football injury in high school, spent the next 33 years in his bedroom, unable to move. The 2011 movie Bernie, which Hollandsworth co-wrote with Richard Linklater, is based on his January 1998 story, “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas.”
His true crime history, The Midnight Assassin, about a series of murders that took place in Austin in 1885, is being published in April 2016 by Henry Holt and Co.
Dec 27, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth
The brother of a young cowboy lost in a 2017 Panhandle fire helped his team to a stunning victory.
Nov 18, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth
The president of Dallas’s Paul Quinn College serves the underserved.
Nov 12, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth
The wildly popular Houston author and speaker is staring down the ”sin” and ”ungodliness” in her own denomination.
Sep 14, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth
Now 99 years old, the legendary coach of the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens has his official place in the Naismith Hall of Fame.
Aug 30, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth
Notes from the Dallas courtroom where, against the odds, police officer Roy Oliver was convicted of murder after shooting the 15-year-old black boy.
Aug 23, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth
Texas leads the country in hot-car deaths of children. Was Michael Thedford a horrible father, or did he make a mistake any parent could make?
Jul 20, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth
Jeff Henry often said that his goal in life was to make customers of his family’s legendary water parks happy—“to put a smile on their faces, to give them a thrill or two.” It was a beautiful vision. Until it went horribly wrong.
May 19, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth
Earlier this spring, Jeff Pike, the head of the infamous Texas-based Bandidos motorcycle club, went on trial in federal court for racketeering. Prosecutors called him a ruthless killer, the man behind one of the deadliest biker shootouts in American history at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. Pike, however, said he was just a good family man. On Thursday, jurors announced their verdict.
May 11, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth
Originally sentenced to twenty years, the Houston dentist who ran over her cheating husband has been paroled.
Apr 18, 2018 — By Skip Hollandsworth
Beginning in 2015, Houston was plagued by a series of brutal armored car robberies that bewildered FBI agents for nearly two years. To finally bring down the unassuming mastermind behind it all, the agents had to stage an elaborate trap—and catch him in the act.