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
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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
  • While the hero existed — as did Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or at least musketeers with similar names — most of the actual stories are invented, either by the sensationalist biographer or Dumas himself.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • As Truell takes a Zoom call, the image of Caro—legendary biographer of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses, known for his exhaustive, decades-long research—looms over his shoulder, sweatered, bespectacled, writing intently.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Fortunately, the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany has been methodically recording thousands of writers’ events since 1983, when it was founded by the novelist William Kennedy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Written by Coel, the series follows Henri (Coel), British-Ghanaian novelist who is on the run – from herself, her life, her partner, and that weird guy at her book talk.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • One of Browne’s colleagues was poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl, Regents Professor Emerita of English at the University of Minnesota.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The celebrated poet and memoirist, delves into the agonies of her decision and describes the emerging women’s liberation movement, of which Moore would soon become a participant.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
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
  • As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The journalist and storyteller has launched Do Good Crew, a new media company built around his podcast, The Person Who Believed in Me, along with a newsletter and live events.
    H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Are there storytellers who influenced you?
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Cyraina Johnson-Roullier is an associate professor of modern literature and literature of the Americas at the University of Notre Dame, as well as an author and essayist.
    Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The essayist, novelist and farmer, 91, is interviewed off camera in the film, his deep, rumbling voice grounding the documentary with words of wisdom.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Mar. 2026

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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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