Louis Trimble

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Louis Preston Trimble (born March 2, 1917 in Seattle , Washington ; died March 9, 1988 in Newton Abbot , Devon ) was an American wild west, crime , and science fiction writer, also known as Gerry Traver and Stuart Brock published.

Life

Trimble was the son of the artist Charles Louis Trimble and Rose Alice Trimble, née Potter. He worked from 1946 to 1947 as an English teacher at a high school in Bonners Ferry, Idaho . He studied at Eastern Washington State College , where he graduated with a Masters in 1953 , and at the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania, among other things, linguistics . From 1956 Trimble was a lecturer and from 1976 professor for humanistic and social science studies at the University of Washington. After his retirement he lived in England.

Trimble wrote around 70 novels, mostly Wild West adventures and crime novels, as well as a few books on topics of English pedagogy, technical-scientific and business English. Between 1968 and 1974 he wrote six science fiction novels, set on strange planets in a distant future.

Trimble had married Renee Eddy in 1938 and had a daughter with her (born 1939). After the death of his wife in 1951, he married the librarian and writer Jacquelyn Whitney in 1952 . After divorcing her, he married Mary Todd in 1974. Trimble died in 1988 at the age of 71.

bibliography

Novels
  • Fit to Kill (1941)
  • Date for Murder (1942)
  • Tarnished Love (1942, as Gerry Travis)
  • Tragedy in Turquoise (1942)
  • Design for Dying (1945)
  • Murder Trouble (1949)
  • Give Up the Body (1946)
  • You Can't Kill a Corpse (1946)
  • Death Is My Lover (1948, as Stuart Brock)
  • Just Around the Coroner (1948, as Stuart Brock)
  • Valley of Violence (1948)
  • The Case of the Blank Cartridge (1949)
  • Railtown Sheriff (1949, as Stuart Brock)
    • English: Der Revolver-Marshal: Western-Roman. Translated by Rolf O. Becker. Pabel Paperback # 159, 1964.
  • The Tide Can't Wait (1949)
  • Gunsmoke Justice (1950)
  • Blonds Are Skin Deep (1950)
  • Gaptown Law (1950)
  • Fighting Cowman (1952)
  • Bring Back Her Body (1953, as Stuart Brock)
    • German: Das Kördersyndikat. Pabel crime novels # 39, 1958.
  • Crossfire (1953)
  • Bullets on Bunchgrass (1954)
  • Double-Cross Ranch (1954, as Stuart Brock)
  • Action at Boundary Peak (1955, as Stuart Brock)
  • Whispering Canyon (1955, as Stuart Brock)
  • Forbidden Range (1956, as Stuart Brock)
  • Killer's Choice (1956, as Stuart Brock)
  • A Lovely Mask for Murder (1956, as Gerry Travis)
  • Stab in the Dark (1956)
  • The Virgin Victim (1956)
  • The Big Bite (1957, as Gerry Travis)
  • Nothing to Lose But My Life (1957)
  • Mountain Ambush (1958)
  • The Smell of Trouble (1958)
  • Cargo for the Styx (1959)
  • The Corpse Without a Country (1959)
  • Obit Deferred (1959)
  • Til Death Do Us Part (1959)
  • The Duchess of Skid Row (1960)
  • Girl on a Slay Ride (1960)
  • Love Me and Die (1960)
  • Deadman and Canyon (1961)
  • Montana Gun (1961)
  • The Surfside Caper (1961)
  • Siege at High Meadow (1962)
  • The Dead and the Deadly (1963)
  • The Man from Colorado (1963)
  • Wild Horse Range (1963)
    • German: Der Wildpferdjäger: Wildwestroman. Balowa, Balve i. W. 1955. Also as: Mustangs: Western novel. Translated by Rolf O. Becker. Pabel Paperback # 157, 1964.
  • Trouble at Gunsight (1964)
  • The Desperate Deputy of Cougar Hill (1965)
  • The Holdout in the Diablos (1965)
    • English: The death of Arroyo Verde: Western novel. Translated by HV Nichau. Moewig Western Pocket Books # 13, 1966.
  • Showdown in the Cayuse (1966)
  • Standoff at Massacre Buttes (1967)
  • Marshal of Sangaree (1968)
  • West to the Pecos (1968)
  • Anthropol (1968)
  • The Noblest Experiment in the Galaxy (1970)
    • German: The best of all worlds. Translated by Hans Maeter. Bildschriftenverlag, Alsdorf 1972, ISBN 3-7768-0002-X .
  • Guardians of the Gate (1972, with Jacquelyn Trimble )
  • The City Machine (1972)
    • German: The city machine. Translated by Lore Strassl. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 21049, 1974, ISBN 3-404-04901-2 .
  • The Wandering Variables (1972)
  • The Bodelan Way (1974)
  • The Hostile Peaks (1969)
  • Trouble Valley (1970)
  • The Lonesome Mountains (1970)
  • The Ragbag Army (1971)

German editions:

  • as Stuart Brock: Murder of Your Choice. Lehning, 1958.
  • A place in hell. Pabel (para Kriminal-Roman # 61), 1965.
  • Death is waiting for you! Pabel Wild West Novels # 452, 1965.
  • A man on the edge. Pabel Wild West Novels # 509, 1966.
Non-fiction
  • Working Papers in English for Science and Technology (1972, with Robert Bley-Vroman and Larry Selinker)
  • New Horizons: A Reader in Scientific and Technical English (1975)
  • Course Materials for Non-Native Speakers Planning to Enter US Universities to Study Science or Technology (1977, with Mary Todd Trimble)
  • English for Multinational Business (1978, with Mary Todd Trimble)
  • English for Science and Technology: A Discourse Approach (1985)

as editor:

  • English for Specific Purposes: Scientific and Technical English (1978, with Karl Drobnic and Mary Todd Trimble)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Trimble, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Traver, Gerry (pseudonym); Brock, Stuart (pseudonym); Trimble, Louis Preston (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1988
Place of death Newton Abbot , Devon