as in autobiographer
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Recent Examples of memoirist
The galleries were connected through a series of routes led by curators and notable arts figures, including Lauren Cuthbertson, a principal dancer with London’s Royal Ballet, and memoirist Alice Hattrick.
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George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
10 June 2026
Gray, one of our last great American traditionalists, has also become a particularly resourceful memoirist, though what’s onscreen never feels like a retread.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 May 2026
Quintessential Millennial Brooklyn jeweler Catbird recently announced a collab with indie popper Japanese Breakfast, aka bestselling memoirist Michelle Zauner.
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Lit Hub Approved,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
One of Browne’s colleagues was poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl, Regents Professor Emerita of English at the University of Minnesota.
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Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
31 Mar. 2026
For decades, Iranian novelist and memoirist Shahrnush Parsipur wrote under the threat of her country’s oppressive laws.
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Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
But on February 27, fans saw a new side of the memoirist and actor.
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Séraphine Roger,
Vanity Fair,
28 Feb. 2026
Just as much an investigator as a memoirist, Nevils attempts to tunnel through the lurid details and the #MeToo boilerplate and unearth something much knottier.
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Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
George McNally, the son of restaurateur and memoirist Keith McNally, is opening his first restaurant, reported Emily Sundberg on her Substack Feed Me.
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Li Goldstein,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
5 Dec. 2025
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
10 June 2026
Gray, one of our last great American traditionalists, has also become a particularly resourceful memoirist, though what’s onscreen never feels like a retread.
—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 May 2026
Quintessential Millennial Brooklyn jeweler Catbird recently announced a collab with indie popper Japanese Breakfast, aka bestselling memoirist Michelle Zauner.
—
Lit Hub Approved,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
One of Browne’s colleagues was poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl, Regents Professor Emerita of English at the University of Minnesota.
—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
31 Mar. 2026
For decades, Iranian novelist and memoirist Shahrnush Parsipur wrote under the threat of her country’s oppressive laws.
—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
But on February 27, fans saw a new side of the memoirist and actor.
—
Séraphine Roger,
Vanity Fair,
28 Feb. 2026
Just as much an investigator as a memoirist, Nevils attempts to tunnel through the lurid details and the #MeToo boilerplate and unearth something much knottier.
—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
George McNally, the son of restaurateur and memoirist Keith McNally, is opening his first restaurant, reported Emily Sundberg on her Substack Feed Me.
—
Li Goldstein,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
5 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memoirist
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The Denver horror novelist was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and endured a lumpectomy, four rounds of chemotherapy and a double mastectomy.
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The 2025 Laureate in Literature, the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, made no mention of humanity’s future.
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According to biographer Robert Jobson, a suspicious Prince William was anxious that Meghan would wear his mother’s jewels during the wedding.
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In addition to Burns at Columbia, Rand and her group were instrumental in helping hone Greenspan's capitalist, free-market economic philosophy, according to Martin, Greenspan's biographer.
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Because the alcohol drives the storytellers toward vernacular expression, these pieces can seem more alive and authentic, more relatable, than big-budget, big-screen productions.
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Mallaby, a longtime financial journalist, is a nimble storyteller, and his portrait of one of the single-minded personalities plunging the world into an uncertain future is also an engaging drama of discovery.
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With No One Gets To Fall Apart, LaBrie’s memoir writing solidifies her as a powerful memorialist.
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Alan White and famed rock member memorialist Cynthia Plaster Caster.
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James Baldwin, a poet, activist and essayist, is one of the most influential figures in American history.
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There also lies the influence of Chilean essayist Pedro Lemebel, braided into Delgado Lopera’s narrative of a father, Ignacio; his 12-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Valentina; and his trans mother, Mamadora Eléctrica, inspired by the author’s own trans mother, Adela Vázquez.
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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Odysseus is a warrior with wit and intellect, a con man and fabulist who constantly reinvents himself.
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The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.
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