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
  • More recently, Irish novelists Sally Rooney and Claire Keegan have had huge international success.
    Kathy Rose O'Brien, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Morrison knew there wasn’t much of a precedent for a novelist writing a successful play.
    Elon Green, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Historians and biographers work around archival gaps to delicately stitch together suppressed histories, but fiction writers can take more creative liberties to reconcile the past.
    Lauren LeBlanc, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
  • In the decades since, critics and biographers have pushed back on this dim view of Frost.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Anna Fiorentino is a storyteller focused on outdoors, adventure, and travel.
    Anna Fiorentino, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Bridging the Gap Huemer believes the climate conversation needs a new kind of leadership—one that brings together artists, storytellers, engineers, and industrialists.
    Kody Boye, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
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
  • Born in London in 1882, Milne was a prolific humorist, editor, essayist and playwright.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.
    Meg Bernhard, Hazlitt, 4 Jan. 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
  • With his distinct style, business sense and comedy that’s been steadily consumed by the masses for over a quarter of a century, the comic has developed a fabulist folklore around his rise to fame akin to his favorite things outside of stand-up — videogames and professional wrestling.
    Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Memoirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoirist. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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