Amy Hollingsworth is a network television scriptwriter and the author of five books, including the bestselling The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers, which earned a spot on The Wall Street Journal’s bestsellers’ list. The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers has also ranked as Amazon’s #1 Best Seller in Christian Inspiration. Amy’s recent television projects include the documentary series Inexplicable: How Christianity Spread to the Ends of the Earth, hosted by actor and Allstate spokesman Dennis Haysbert. She served as senior scriptwriter and content editor for the series, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. She also recently completed two primetime television specials with renowned New Testament scholar and bestselling author N.T. Wright.
Amy has the distinction of being the first person to ever interview Mister Rogers about his faith on television. How she was able to win that interview formed the basis of the long friendship that followed.
Amy developed an equally close relationship with Fred Rogers’ widow, Joanne, and stayed in constant contact with her through personal visits and correspondence until Joanne’s death in January 2021.
Amy was invited to walk the red carpet at the Pittsburgh premiere of the Tom Hanks film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and was given a special thanks credit on the blockbuster documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
She is also the author of Runaway Radical, cowritten with her son Jonathan and featured in Christianity Today magazine, and Letters from the Closet, published by Simon & Schuster and named one of USA Today’s Top Pop Culture Picks of the Week. A former adjunct professor in psychology, Amy is the mother of two grown children, both writers, and lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with her husband Jeff.
“You know what I think your gift is, Amy? You invite a person into a sacred space. That’s your gift. A person is safe with you. You allow a person a resting place in your heart where they can express both their bigness and their smallness.”
~Dr. Alvin Jones, radio host
