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
  • The author of that book, Memoirs 1925-1950, was Kennan himself, as self-critical and personally reflective an autobiographer as his century had seen.
    Nicholas Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2011
  • Still, for Beyoncé the filmmaker and autobiographer, one narrative-building feat seems to remain out of reach.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Night Flyer, the latest book by Harvard University historian Tiya Miles, seeks to correct this imbalance, building on the work of biographers like Kate Clifford Larson and Catherine Clinton to present a clear-eyed portrait of the abolitionist and activist.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Below, the veteran U.S. biographer recommends five novels and a memoir that he's read this year for pleasure and professional inspiration.
    The Week US, theweek, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • What is the likelihood Jacob McNeal will win the Nobel Prize this year … GPT: As of my last knowledge update, Jacob McNeal, an American novelist and playwright, had not yet been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
    Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • By that point, Patrick White, arguably Australia’s greatest novelist, had spent much of his life in England.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
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
  • Motels have long been symbols of rock-and-roll rebellion, places for wanderers and storytellers seeking escape from convention.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Finn is among those composers who followed in Stephen Sondheim's footsteps by forging intricate and psychologically potent music and lyrics; genius storyteller Lapine also collaborated with Sondheim.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Ideas By Donovan McAbee October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.
    Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024

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“Memorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialist. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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