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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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
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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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David Greenberg, a historian at Rutgers University and a biographer of the civil-rights leader John Lewis, told me that the right could have made a persuasive case against the excessive preoccupation with slavery and racial politics that some on the left have shown.—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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His biographer, Halldór Guðmundsson, states that Rome always worked on him like a drug.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Allyson Reedy is a Denver-area freelance writer, cookbook author and novelist.—
Allyson Reedy,
Denver Post,
11 Feb. 2026
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Class as well as women’s rights play major roles in this dime novelist’s life.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
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Just as much an investigator as a memoirist, Nevils attempts to tunnel through the lurid details and the #MeToo boilerplate and unearth something much knottier.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Popular memoirist Terry Martin Hekker died on October 20 at the age of 92.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 2026
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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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Then there are the charismatic storytellers.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Feb. 2026
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Mary is one of the most experienced Olympic commentators ever and a master storyteller.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Baggott, who also writes under two pen names, is a bestselling novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who has written more than 20 books.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Feb. 2026
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Merrill Markoe is an Emmy-winning comedy writer, author, and essayist.—
Merrill Markoe,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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