His published work included science fiction, westerns, mysteries, and academic non-fiction.
He generally wrote as Louis Trimble, but used the pseudonym "Stuart Brock" for some of his work.
After working as a logger and a housepainter, he became an instructor and professor in humanities and social studies at the University of Washington from 1956 onward.
[1] Trimble's work in applied linguistics examined the use of English in science and technology contexts.
As a member of the Washington School he advanced the "grammatical-rhetorical" position in English for Science and Technology research, which argued that linguistic analysis of scientific discourse should consider how various rhetorical functions manifested grammatically in texts at the discourse level.