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
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Those editorials were disgracefully wrong, but Buckley had changed by the 1960s, as WFB biographer Alvin Felzenberg has recounted at length and Tanenhaus acknowledges in the book.
    The Editors, National Review, 2 June 2025
  • The Pulitzer-winning biographer explores the life of the celebrated American writer. 5.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Veteran screenwriter and novelist Kazuki Nakashima penned the screenplay, with character designs by Takashi Okazaki and music by Yugo Kanno.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 13 June 2025
  • The reporter, who was also a novelist and film producer, visited her Maine property and drew a large crowd.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 12 June 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
  • Dante is a masterful storyteller and unflinching in his recollections.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
  • Comedian, storyteller and public speaker Ali Siddiq is on the way to the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach with his In the Shadows tour stop on Dec. 20.
    Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • The works of African American novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman were read by WORDTheatre members Gary Dourdan, Chris Chalk and Ronald Guttman at the Players Club.
    Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
  • Lucky for us, the Chicago Humanities Festival has paired her with another fabulous genre-bending essayist — Evanston’s own Eula Biss.
    Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025

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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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