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
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Beatty’s biographer, Peter Biskind, also famously estimated that the number of women Beatty had slept with could be as high as 12,275.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
12 June 2026
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Royal biographer Caroline Hallemann explained how the women’s first meeting in 1961 went down.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
11 June 2026
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Repetition is composed of a novelist’s remembrances of her teenage girlhood, a tumultuous time no matter what.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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The 2021 All Her Fault became the first book by Irish crime novelist Mara to get a screen adaptation when Peacock made it into a limited series with Gallagher, Carnival Films and UIS, a division of Universal Studio Group.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
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The galleries were connected through a series of routes led by curators and notable arts figures, including Lauren Cuthbertson, a principal dancer with London’s Royal Ballet, and memoirist Alice Hattrick.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
10 June 2026
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Gray, one of our last great American traditionalists, has also become a particularly resourceful memoirist, though what’s onscreen never feels like a retread.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 May 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
Noun
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For more than a decade, the Ignite fellowship has brought together storytellers ages 18 to 25 for professional development and community-building.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
15 June 2026
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Cindy was also a gifted storyteller.—
Ann Larson,
Time,
11 June 2026
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James Baldwin, a poet, activist and essayist, is one of the most influential figures in American history.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
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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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