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
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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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But where there might be a distinction is between the actions of the family and the future of the monarchy, said Jonathan Dimbleby, the King’s biographer and friend.—
Jamie Timson,
TheWeek,
20 Feb. 2026
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David Greenberg, a historian at Rutgers University and a biographer of the civil-rights leader John Lewis, told me that the right could have made a persuasive case against the excessive preoccupation with slavery and racial politics that some on the left have shown.—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2026
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An English professor at Harvard and the author of two acclaimed novels, The Old Drift (2019) and The Furrows (2022), Serpell combines a professorial breadth of reference and a novelist’s fascination with the mechanics of literature.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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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
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Popular memoirist Terry Martin Hekker died on October 20 at the age of 92.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 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
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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Created in 1972 by veteran voice actor June Foray, the Annie Awards recognize the animation industry’s most talented artists and storytellers.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
21 Feb. 2026
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Hassan Herzallah is a Palestinian storyteller, writer, and translator based in Gaza, currently in his fourth year studying English translation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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Baxter, a fiction writer and essayist who has won two Minnesota Book Awards and is a former University of Minnesota professor of creative writing, calls for more poetry now.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
23 Feb. 2026
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Baggott, who also writes under two pen names, is a bestselling novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who has written more than 20 books.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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