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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Fordwich’s comments came after royal biographer Robert Jobson told People magazine that Andrew could face exile abroad.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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His biographer, Rod Taylor, chatted with Joe Sibilia on Nostalgia Tonight about Holloway's relationship with Disney.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
15 Jan. 2026
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Parti has been developing the six-part series for years, working with Imran Mahmood, a criminal barrister, novelist, and screenwriter.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2026
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Back in Seoul, star novelist and No 1.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 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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Also this week, George McNally, son of legendary restaurateur, memoirist and Instagram raconteur Keith McNally, will open his first restaurant.—
Li Goldstein,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
5 Dec. 2025
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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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Adventures have taken children and parents from the Caribbean to India to Japan, bringing local storytellers, craftsmen, and guides into the narrative.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Robert Redford loved storytellers.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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Merrill Markoe is an Emmy-winning comedy writer, author, and essayist.—
Merrill Markoe,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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May Teng is an Indonesian-American writer and essayist based in Brooklyn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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