MEMOIRIST Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

memoirist

noun

Definition of memoirist

as in autobiographer

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Recent Examples of memoirist Cher moved from folk-pop duo to television star to Oscar-winning actress to dance-floor futurist to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and memoirist. — Debbie Millman, Time, 25 July 2026 The Victorian house in which the playwright and memoirist Lillian Hellman lived as a child has been preserved — and is now available as a rental on Airbnb. — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 20 July 2026 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. — 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

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Noun

Only the boy’s early obsession with the keyboard—initially discouraged by his parents—pointed to his destiny as a globe-trotting concert pianist, a composer in the major classical genres, and a fluent essayist and autobiographer to boot.

— Matthew Gurewitsch, Air Mail, 29 Aug. 2026
This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.

— Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024

Definition of autobiographer

Noun

In the last decade, Ron has gone from posting chapters of that debut book on Wattpad to becoming a New York Times bestselling novelist whose work has become an enormous source of IP for Amazon MGM Studios.

— Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026
The diaries of the novelist Andrey Kurkov (collected into three volumes thus far) provide a rich chronicle of Ukrainians’ evolving responses to their extraordinary circumstances.

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Flynn biographer Jeffrey Meyers endorses the view that power politics and corruption fueled the case.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Harry’s surprise return to Britain has especially affected his older brother William, according to royal biographer Katie Nicholl.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of biographer

Noun

But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.

— Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb.

— Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020

Definition of hagiographer

Noun

Neal Ascherson encountered some of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies as a veteran, journalist, essayist, historian, novelist, and political activist.

— Emily Witt, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
Growing up in the foothills of eastern Kentucky as a compulsive reader and full-time hillbilly, I was instinctively attracted, like most literary-minded country folk, to the work of essayist, novelist, and poet, Wendell Berry.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026

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