as in autobiographer
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Recent Examples of memoirist
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.
—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
Also this week, George McNally, son of legendary restaurateur, memoirist and Instagram raconteur Keith McNally, will open his first restaurant.
—Li Goldstein, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
Sanmao is the pen name for the late Taiwanese memoirist Chen Ping.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2025
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
Also this week, George McNally, son of legendary restaurateur, memoirist and Instagram raconteur Keith McNally, will open his first restaurant.
—Li Goldstein, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
Sanmao is the pen name for the late Taiwanese memoirist Chen Ping.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memoirist
Noun
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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
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Published in 2020, Beach Read is a romantic comedy following January Andrews, a successful romance novelist who struggles with grief and writer’s block after her father’s death and the discovery of secrets he’s long kept hidden.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
28 May 2026
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His favorite author is young adult novelist Alan Gratz, favorite food is beef stroganoff and favorite school subject is math.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 May 2026
Noun
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Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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While Goodman’s paradoxes and fantasies posed challenges to me as her biographer, with the advent of AI slop and ChatGPT, our courtship with illusion (and possibly delusion) is here to stay.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
Noun
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Her approach of looking at the world through the lens of a non-linear storyteller felt not only timely but essential to understanding a global cultural landscape outside traditional institutional frameworks.—
Thomas Rom,
ARTnews.com,
8 June 2026
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My life, my choices and roles, my skillsets as a producer, director, writer, comic book creator, vodcaster, storyteller of the year, my politics, my company, Color Farm Media, the impact, my partnerships, my collaboration, my future all speaks to this.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
6 June 2026
Noun
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With No One Gets To Fall Apart, LaBrie’s memoir writing solidifies her as a powerful memorialist.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
18 Oct. 2024
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Alan White and famed rock member memorialist Cynthia Plaster Caster.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
2 Dec. 2022
Noun
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But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2024
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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
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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.—
Laura Zornosa,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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Kramer, a playwright and essayist who had been covering AIDS since the beginning through journalism, had co-founded the non-profit Gay Men’s Health Crisis in 1982.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
3 June 2026
Noun
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Memoirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoirist. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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