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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This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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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
Noun
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Years later, Cassandra burned the vast majority of her younger sister’s 3,000 letters, leaving only around 160 for the benefit of researchers, biographers and Janeites, as the author’s devotees are known.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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Austen Ivereigh, Pope Francis' biographer, also told BBC News that coins minted during his papacy - one for each year of his 12-year tenure - will have been placed in a bag in his coffin.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The movie, based on the 2016 by the same name, imagines a fictional pope's death and the subsequent election with characters and twists created by novelist Harris.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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At the Old Stone House, the three people who showed up to join the venue’s director of education, Maggie Weber, were all female Brooklynites: a political-science student, an attorney turned novelist, and a middle-school teacher.—
Henry Alford,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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The boy who had once listened to enslaved storytellers had become a virtuoso yarn-spinner.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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The two-day event is expected to bring together more than 550 storytellers across seven outdoor stages and 15 indoor venues.—
Rebecca Plevin,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.—
Lynn Steger Strong,
The Atlantic,
21 Apr. 2025
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There goes America’s competitive advantage in a warming world, by Robinson Meyer, guest essayist, The New York Times.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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