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
  • The headphones allowed Saenz de Viteri to speak to each audience member directly, as a writer speaks to each reader, and alternate points-of-view from omniscient distance one minute to character interiority the next, like a daring novelist.
    Brian Schaefer July 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025
  • That story is about two men, one an up-and-coming-actor and the other a want-to-be novelist, who fall into a deep brotherhood while sleeping with the same woman.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • On July 1, The Times published an excerpt containing the claim made in a recent edition of royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith's Substack, Royals Extra.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 2 July 2025
  • At the age of 4, Laster was taught to read by her grandmother, something her close friend and biographer Holly Jenkins-Livers remarked was not only rare for a child that young, but especially so given the times.
    David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Star Wars books From the days of the High Republic to the Rise of the First Order, storytellers from across the Star Wars galaxy offer behind-the-scenes stories.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • Hill, the son of Stephen King, is an enthralling storyteller.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 10 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
  • King has a blogger’s punch and an essayist’s analysis—her dexterous writing is intelligent, observant, and very, very funny.
    Literary Hub July 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
  • Felsenthal is a fiction writer, poet, critic and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Atlantic and other publications.
    Daniel Felsenthal, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Many of the hustlers and fabulists who populate Crews’s fiction are typical American strivers.
    Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • Playing in the space between social realism and fabulist storytelling, Kezilahabi’s novel asks moral questions about parents’ responsibilities and the effects of women’s liberation, sparing no one but withholding final judgment.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
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“Memoirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoirist. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.

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