Trout appears in several of Vonnegut's books, in which he performs a variety of roles: he acts as a catalyst for the main characters in Breakfast of Champions, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Slaughterhouse-Five, while in others, such as Jailbird, and Timequake, Trout is an active character who is vital to the story.

; Kilgore Trout: A failed science fiction writer who makes money by managing newspaper delivery boys and has received only one fan letter ( from Eliot Rosewater ; see below ).

; Eliot Rosewater: A friend whom Billy meets in the veteran's hospital and who introduces him to the science fiction novels of Kilgore Trout ( see above ).

He was originally created as a fictionalized version of author Theodore Sturgeon ( Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction — Vonnegut was amused by the notion of a person with the name of a fish, Sturgeon, hence Trout ), although Trout's consistent presence in Vonnegut's works has also led critics to view him as the author's own alter ego.

In Hocus Pocus, Trout is not mentioned by name, but reading a Trout-like science fiction story.

Trout, who has supposedly written over 117 novels and over 2000 short stories, is usually described as an unappreciated science fiction writer whose works are used only as filler material in pornographic magazines.

Trout is referred to in Salman Rushdie's magical realism novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet -- " Books by famous American writers ... science fiction by Kilgore Trout ,..."

Jailbird also features a brief appearance of Kilgore Trout, a recurring Vonnegut character who writes science fiction novels and stories.

White's Star Healer introduces the classification " FOKT ", which is regarded as an in-joke on the name of the Glasgow science fiction club Friends of Kilgore Trout.

Venus on the Half-Shell is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer, writing pseudonymously as " Kilgore Trout ," a fictional recurring character in many of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout

Cartoonist and writer Matt Groening tells of listening to Trout Mask Replica at the age of 15 and thinking " that it was the worst thing I'd ever heard.

Renowned author Kurt Vonnegut created a fictional character, the writer Kilgore Trout, who was said to have been a resident of Cohoes.

Rosewater turns out to be the writer of the only fan letter Trout ever received.

The name was a transparent reference to the older writer ( substituting " Kilgore " for " Theodore " and " Trout " for " Sturgeon "), but since the characterization was less than flattering ( both Sturgeon and Trout were financially unsuccessful and seemingly slipping into obscurity ), Vonnegut did not publicly state the connection, nor did Sturgeon encourage the comparison.

* Kilgore Trout is the pseudonym used by a writer for the satire website Chronicle. SU

After becoming lucid after a year-long mental blackout, Rosewater's favorite writer, Kilgore Trout, tries to explain to the Senator that Eliot's actions were sane and compassionate.

It featured Trout, Bob Hope, and New York Times writer Bill Laurence, who had won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Manhattan Project ).

BBC disc jockey John Peel said of the album: " If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work.

Perhaps the most unusual example of this was the fictitious author Kilgore Trout, who appears in the works of Kurt Vonnegut.

* Mike Trout ( born 1991 ), Major League Baseball outfielder who has played for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

* Evelyn " Bobbi " Trout ( 1906 – 2003 ), who held numerous records for endurance, mileage and altitude.

; Montana Wildhack: A model who stars in a film shown in a pornographic bookstore when Billy stops by to check out the Kilgore Trout novels sitting in the window.

Recent discoveries of burbot in the Green River at Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah have concerned wildlife biologists who fear that the burbot could decimate the sport fish population in what is recognized as one of the world's top Brown Trout fisheries, because it often feeds on the eggs of other fish in the lake like Sockeye salmon.

* Trout Ponds-This beautiful Victorian park was built in 1869 by Mr. Waring who wanted to breed trout, provide a recreation area for the public, and provide a place to build custom fly rods.

The largest hotel is the Georgian fronted Trout which still has a faded photo on its walls of Bing Crosby who used the hotel as a base for his fishing in the town's rivers.

Just as those who used the waters for commercial fishing in the early 20th century, campers may also find relaxation fishing for Northern Pike, Walleye, Lake Trout, Whitefish, or Yellow Perch.

Kilgore Trout serves again as the main character, who the author declares as having died in 2001, at Xanadu retreat in Rhode Island.

In the conclusion of this book, Vonnegut ( who has inserted himself into the text, something he also did in Breakfast of Champions and, to a lesser degree, in Slaughterhouse-Five ) meets other authors for a celebration of Trout.

Waverley, who with Trout has followed Phibes to his mountain hideaway in Crete, believes it all to be a trick and says, " Strike me dead if it's not a hoax "; he is promptly struck by a lightning bolt and turns into a puff of smoke.

However, he does have at least three fans: Eliot Rosewater and Billy Pilgrim — both Vonnegut characters — have a near-complete collection of Trout's work or have read most of his work ; in Galápagos, Leon Trotsky Trout goes on leave in Thailand and meets an unnamed Swedish doctor who is a fan of Kilgore Trout.

Trout " dies " at midnight on October 15, 2004 in Cohoes following his consultation with a psychic, who informs him that George W. Bush would once again win the U. S. Presidential election by a vote of 5-to-4 in the Supreme Court.

The most successful Headstone Manor team to date was managed by Nigel ' Trout Pout ' Trout, between 2000 and 2005, who enjoyed an incredible amount of success guiding his son's team, with great support from the likes of Kevin Duffy, Lino Perdoni and the UEFA B standard coaching of John Parsons.

In the world of those stories, Kilgore Trout has written a novel called Venus on the Half-Shell.

In 1975 real-world author Philip José Farmer wrote a science-fiction novel called Venus on the Half-Shell, which he published under the name Kilgore Trout.

Kilgore Trout is also a main character in Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions.

Trout is also the titular author of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, pseudonymously written by Philip José Farmer.

" The ghost of Trout's son Leon Trotsky Trout is the narrator of the novel Galápagos.

At least one actual published work is attributed to a Kilgore Trout: the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, written by Philip José Farmer but published under the name " Kilgore Trout.

In the novel Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn, the folksinging fan Jenny Trout ( a character based on real-life folksinger Leslie Fish ) is said to be the daughter of Kilgore Trout.

Kilgore Trout — deceased — makes four appearances in the novel, urging his son to enter the " blue tunnel " that leads to the afterlife.

Her final novel Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes ( 1968 ) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1969 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1970.

Many chapters in Richard Brautigan's 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America take place in Washington Square.

Gyllenhaal directed the film version of the Pete Dexter novel Paris Trout, which was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won him a DGA Award.

He won the U. S. National Book Award in 1988 for his novel Paris Trout.