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
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Sun has found comfort and satisfaction in his work as a novelist and florist after a difficult childhood in the entertainment industry, while Sung is driven to reach the highest echelons of career success as a team leader at Feel Entertainment, having seen her wealthy family lose everything.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
  • There was late novelist and journalist Meyer Levin, and most recently, Josh Peck named his third child Meyer Lane.
    Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Royal biographer and commentator Phil Dampier told the Sun that Markle was more interested in fame and fortune.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In 2017, Baldwin’s papers were acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, giving biographers access to an extensive archive.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In a world that grows increasingly interconnected, the role of a creative storyteller is to bridge cultural divides while honoring the unique voices of each community.
    Colin Dougan, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The jury is made up of experienced filmmakers, storytellers and industry insiders, including Paton Oswalt, Fred Durst, Otessa Moshfegh, Aaron Schimberg, Mercedes Bryce, Brandon Hill and more.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 14 Aug. 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
  • Jessica Kiang Film critic, essayist and programmer with bylines in Variety, Sight & Sound, Criterion, Mubi, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, Film Comment and Rolling Stone, among other outlets.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
  • The essayist and Transcendentalist kingpin was impressed.
    James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Ari Ben Menashe, a onetime Israeli operative whom Israeli and American officials have said is a fabulist who vastly exaggerates and fabricates, claims to have run Epstein as an asset.
    Ron Kampeas, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
  • George Santos to report to prison George Santos, the fabulist former New York Republican lawmaker, is set to report to prison Friday — and he’s had a lot to say about it.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 23 July 2025
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“Memoirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoirist. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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