memorialist

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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. 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
  • 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
  • Although Fawnie doesn’t have any notable namesakes, the late biographer Fawn Brodie was one of the first female professors at UCLA, and artist Fawn Krieger is a recent recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant.
    Sarah Scott, Parents, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Royal biographer Ingrid Seward also criticized Harry for speaking ill of Kate for financial gain.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 12 Oct. 2025
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
  • 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
  • This might compel me to reshape the narrator’s style and tone in hopes of conjuring a more engaging storyteller.
    Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Colleagues saw her as a yenta, a mentor and a storyteller who was always tough and true to herself.
    NPR, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Baggot, who will also serve as executive producer, is a novelist, essayist, poet and associate professor at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow.
    Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020

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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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