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
  • While Goodman’s paradoxes and fantasies posed challenges to me as her biographer, with the advent of AI slop and ChatGPT, our courtship with illusion (and possibly delusion) is here to stay.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • Meacham is a historian and biographer.
    Time, Time, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • The travelers are the famous novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller), who is serving on this trip as her father’s assistant, driver, editor, and barber.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 May 2026
  • The screenplay is co-written by Annila and Rachelle Atalla, a Scottish-Egyptian novelist and screenwriter.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Quintessential Millennial Brooklyn jeweler Catbird recently announced a collab with indie popper Japanese Breakfast, aka bestselling memoirist Michelle Zauner.
    Lit Hub Approved, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • One of Browne’s colleagues was poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl, Regents Professor Emerita of English at the University of Minnesota.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2026
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
  • As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And this is the director in him, the storyteller in him.
    Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • The winners in this next phase will be the companies that can build around human storytellers who have earned genuine trust at scale.
    Lin Cherry, Fortune, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • Ali Raz is a fiction writer, essayist, and author of the collaborative poetry project Human Tetris and the novella Alien.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Gabrielle Glancy is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Poetry Review.
    Gabrielle Glancy, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026

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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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