as in autobiographer
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Recent Examples of memorialist
With No One Gets To Fall Apart, LaBrie’s memoir writing solidifies her as a powerful memorialist.
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Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Oct. 2024
Alan White and famed rock member memorialist Cynthia Plaster Caster.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Oct. 2024
Alan White and famed rock member memorialist Cynthia Plaster Caster.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memorialist
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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Her biographer, Mark Oppenheimer, is a middle-aged father of five.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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In addition to the monarchy depending on her, so does the Prince of Wales, fellow royal biographer Russell Myers told the outlet.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
10 Mar. 2026
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Series author and co-creator James Tynion IV is writing the book with horror novelist Kiersten White.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Mar. 2026
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The famous detective novelist and screenwriter had written an essay for the magazine excoriating the motion-picture industry and its tolerance for—indeed celebration of—mindless mediocrity.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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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
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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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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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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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Agricultural businesses need storytellers, social media managers and content creators to share engaging and transparent narratives about the innovative efforts taking place on their farms.—
Metro Creative Services,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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Preston is a fun, engaging storyteller whose work balances humor and poignancy.—
Heide Janssen,
Oc Register,
15 Mar. 2026
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Camonghne Felix, poet and essayist, is the author of Build Yourself a Boat, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry, shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award, and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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Joy Williams is an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist best known for her short fiction.—
Joy Williams,
The Dial,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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