memorialist

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Recent Examples of memorialist Alan White and famed rock member memorialist Cynthia Plaster Caster. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
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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
  • Hemingway, according to literary biographer Scott Donaldson, quickly become the target of a confidence-bruising onslaught designed to humble him and mold him into a subservient, obedient journalist.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This version features the star casting of Nick Jonas as the novelist Jamie, with Adrienne Warren (of Tina) as the shiksa goddess Cathy.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The insider crowd at the opening party at a modernist house in Baldwin Hills included a healer, a graphic novelist, a magician, a rapper.
    Travis Diehl, New York Times, 8 Jan. 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
  • From iconic performers and gifted storytellers to fearless activists and pioneering visionaries, these figures left an indelible mark on the world and our communities.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Jan. 2025
  • On behalf of all of our readers, thank you, Dan, for being Baltimore’s voice, advocate, and an exceptional reporter and storyteller.
    Trif Alatzas, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold chronicles the life of the essayist, novelist, screenwriter and critic Joan Didon through personal stories from behind the influential work.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Buy Now: Second Life on Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong (May 13) Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong’s third novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a big-hearted ode to second chances.
    Shannon Carlin, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024

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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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