John R. Trimble is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Princeton University in 1962 and a PhD in English from the University of California Berkeley in 1971. In 1975, four years after finishing graduate school, Trimble published Writing with Style: Conservation in the Art of Writing.

Trimble worked as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin for 36 years, from 1970 until his retirement in 2006. During his career as a professor, Trimble specialized in expository writing, rhetoric, pedagogy, short story writing, and American drama. As a teacher, Trimble was dedicated to teaching, earning him the title of University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus.

Writing with Style is Trimble’s only book, although he has authored and edited dozens of articles. Trimble’s curriculum vitae is available on the University of Texas at Austin’s website.