Louis Trimble

Born in Seattle on March 2, 1917, Louis Preston Trimble was an American writer and academic whose work ranged across science fiction, mysteries, westerns, and nonfiction. He also taught at the University of Washington, where reference sources identify him as an associate professor in humanities and social studies.

Trimble was notably prolific. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says he had written sixty-six novels by 1977, though only a small part of that output was science fiction. He published mainly as Louis Trimble, and some sources also list the pseudonyms Stuart Brock and Gerry Travis.

He died on March 9, 1988, in Newton Abbot, Devon, England. Today he is remembered as one of those dependable, wide-ranging authors who could turn from suspense to frontier adventure to speculative fiction without losing his storytelling drive.