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
  • Royal biographer Penny Junor also compared Kate to Philip in an interview with the Daily Mail.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 6 Sep. 2025
  • However, some reports have suggested that B intimated to the biographer that the singer's bandmates and his best friend, Mary Austin, had been aware of her existence.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trying to pin down what a novelist actually believes is a sure way to get trapped in a labyrinth of misreadings and fallacies.
    Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Service is also a realistic story about a frustrated middle-aged former journalist and aspiring novelist idling in an ultra-low-paying job.
    Susan Coll September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 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
  • Ayisha Miracle Mendez is a strategic community builder, storyteller, and connector with 5 years of experience spanning marketing, editorial, and corporate disciplines.
    Ayisha Miracle Mendez, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Science fiction didn't begin with blockbuster films or sleek space operas — it was born in the pages of literature, where bold thinkers and master storytellers pushed the boundaries of imagination.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As an essayist, Dasgupta has contributed to distinguished outlets such as Harper’s, Granta, and The New Statesman.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In the latest issue of the magazine, the writer and essayist Leslie Jamison reports on the many negative health effects of perfectionism.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020

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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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