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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • And that’s the vision these storytellers are modeling.
    Stephanie Long, Essence, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Tribeca Studios has partnered with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Miranda Family Fund to launch Colectivo, a fellowship and filmmaking program created to support the next generation of Latino storytellers.
    Lauren Coates, Variety, 11 Apr. 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
  • The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.
    Lynn Steger Strong, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Memoirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoirist. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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