memoirist

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for memoirist
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
  • In those same intoxicated days, Amos Oz—a young novelist who was raised in Jerusalem under British rule and served in a tank unit during the Six-Day War—emerged from the fighting wary of expansionism and the abuse of power.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
  • In March 1886, Chekhov received a letter from Dmitry Grigorovich, an elder novelist, out of the blue.
    Ha Jin July 28, Literary Hub, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • According to royal biographer Ingrid Seward's 2023 book My Mother and I, Diana's father, Earl Spencer, may have changed her mind about calling off the wedding.
    Stephanie Petit, People.com, 29 July 2025
  • Coming from Johnson’s biographer (me), that claim may sound like hyperbole.
    Philip Nel July 28, Literary Hub, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • One of the most effective ways to help build brands and marketing success is to be an effective storyteller.
    Edward Segal, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • Different baskets, regalia, or stories can be the time machine, the storage container, the religious fulcrum, the food carrier, the knowledge bearer, or the storyteller.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
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
  • Here the great essayist puts her sharp eye to engaging some of the contradictions in Gerwig’s spin on a classic.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
  • Like the essayists in Life and The New York Times, the candidate recognized that the country needed more than policy prescriptions.
    Time, Time, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • George Santos to report to prison George Santos, the fabulist former New York Republican lawmaker, is set to report to prison Friday — and he’s had a lot to say about it.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 23 July 2025
  • Many of the hustlers and fabulists who populate Crews’s fiction are typical American strivers.
    Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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“Memoirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoirist. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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