memoirist

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for memoirist
Noun
  • The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.
    Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Take the Bechdel test, coined by cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel in a comic strip.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Woodruff served as showrunner and executive produced alongside novelist Steph Cha with Kim and John Cheng for 3AD; Stephen Christy and Ross Richie for Boom!
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The members include Ginsburg’s daughter and granddaughters, plus lawyers, legal scholars, museum administrators, biographers (including our own Irin Carmon), and the principal of her alma mater in Midwood.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Roasted chicken is Harry’s favorite food, according to his biographer.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Filmmakers and storytellers like myself and Idris feel a sense of responsibility to telling particular types of stories.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Our Guild is built on the backs of storytellers, visionaries and fierce advocates for the creative and economic rights of our members.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With No One Gets To Fall Apart, LaBrie’s memoir writing solidifies her as a powerful memorialist.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Alan White and famed rock member memorialist Cynthia Plaster Caster.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
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
Noun
  • Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow.
    Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Simon Njami is an independent curator and a lecturer, art critic, and essayist.
    Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island.
    Adam Graham, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Memoirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoirist. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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